The talk is about how an ESB, and Mule in particular, can be utilized to create Mashups. Mashups and ESBs serve as catalysts for learning new technologies and thus stay in touch with the latest buzzwords (if that it a personal goal). The notion of Mashups fuels creative ideas and an ESB like Mule makes it easy to realize them. This talk promotes the idea that Mashups and Mule is a perfect match for learning the new techonologies. GeoMail is used throughout the talk and serves as an example that illustrates the road from an idea to a final Mashup. GeoMail retrieves the IP address of the originating sender of your incoming e-mails, resolves a geographic location from that IP-address using a public Web Service and plots the locations asynchrounously om GoogleMaps using a custom Mule Ajax Transport. The result is a live view of how widespread your mailinglist is or how international your contact list is. This talk will present how GeoMail is created and the choices that were made in order to stay buzzword-compliant.
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