Synthesis Human Services Open Source Data Integration Server is now a Web Service as well as an FTP/ETL tool
it now uses the REST framework built within Pylons to wrap existing functionality
In addition to exposing REST web services, Synthesis also has been ported to a buildout framework. Buildout is sort of like Ant (Java) for Python. It automatically gets from the Internet and builds all the other open source dependencies it needs to run. So it's easy to install now. Instructions for installing on Linux are online. Apparently, the Pyramid framework will replace Pylons, and when it becomes stable, we'll look at switching to Pyramid. We're using Synthesis as a Web Service for a corrections/human services data sharing project.
