XAP

Nexaweb Technologies Inc has donated its technology to Apache. XAP is an XML-based declarative framework for building, deploying and maintaining rich, interactive Ajax powered web applications.

I am not sure about this technology but as this is now an Apache product I'll watch it.

SOA quotes

Here are few SOA quotes that my friend Thomas sent me a while ago:

• SOA development is a lot like teenage rebellion. There's a wide gap between the number of people talking about it and the number who are actually doing it.

• Ask a developer if he/she is building Web services and the answer almost invariably will be yes. Ask that same person if those services are being registered and the answer almost invariably will be no.

• The best sentence ever written about SOA is still the ZapThink mantra: SOA is not something you buy, it's something you do. Nothing clarifies the concept better.

• When you run into people complaining about SOA, if you talk to them long enough you'll usually find that they agree with all the core principles behind it and their complaint revolves around the name itself and the way it's been marketed.

• The enterprise service bus is going to be completely transformed in the coming years. Not only will ESBs offer business process management and Web services management functionality, but the very nature of messaging will be streamlined. It's the unspoken arms race of the SOA vendor community.

• In Dutch, SOA stands for seksueel overdraagbare aandoenin, which means sexually transmitted disease.

• Much as users like to claim independence, they still look to the vendor community to guide them. If SOA fails to take hold, if users don't ultimately embrace this method of building services, it will be because the vendor community failed to get itself organized around the concept.

SSO

There is very a good SSO paper on theserverside “SOA and Identity Management” from Justen Stepka.
Definitely a good to read paper.