Parleys.com: ESBs in the Investment Banks

Most technologists in investment banking take ESBs to be hype; one big problem is its close ties to XML and Web Services. XML is not exactly the most efficient way to sent low-latency, high volume messages. Most Java programmers happily code in light-weight frameworks and often wonder what the hype is all about. Application server vendors realising that JEE is not getting them sales are moving into ESBs, the problem is though that they didn't seem to shake off the app server in the process. John will look at some truly enterprise-scale service buses, the architectures and technologies being used to make them investment bank safe.