Loving Message Buses and Messaging in General (so far favourite: Tibco - so far least favourite, Oracle), I was delighted to hear about AMQP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Message_Queuing_Protocol).
A new Messaging Protocol, made also to integrate with Tibco and other (proprietary) systems. Backed by the Finance Industry which undoubtedly is a good case for a reference project, setting the stakes high and surely resulting in a performant system.
Hopefully it'll become available, replacing the Oracle Message Bus, soon enough !!
