I'd also proposed using the OpenAjax hub, just like the RichFaces guys are proposing - but that, too, was voted down, this time with my more reluctant consent - but with the understanding that bridging the two systems would be trivial - and indeed it is - I just posted a blog describing how to do so, and it was almost embarrassingly short.
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