Thanks hstang and Norman for your opinions - very informative and useful. And yeah, Norman, I will "feel free to join in" as soon as I can :-), currently very busy with two other open source projects. BTW, I totally agree with your comment about over-architecting applications when there is absolutely no need to do so - this is so true for web applications. Fortunately or unfortunately, in my line of work there is 50-50 mix of web apps and enterprise apps (with Swing and other thick front-ends). So at least for me I cannot ignore entrprise apps and SOA. I would love to hear Gavin's comments and direction on this - at least before I jump in with both my feet :-). Thanks. Naresh View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3998029#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...