I have to admit that I am a great fan of RSS. And I have always considered RSS feeds to
be Web Services. Alright, they might not technically qualify
to be Web Services according
to the W3C definition.
However they are sort of a stripped-down and cheap version
or what I would like to call a "poor man's" version of web services.
Why do I feel so ? Let's try comparing the formal web service...
I have been having this interesting conversation with the developer of JOSSO, an open source Single Sign On framework. The good news from JOSSO is that they can integrate with Pluto, potentially providing a great open source identity template for portal infrastructures.
Now what's Identity and how does it relate to portals ? After having worked a good year and a half with the Sun Identity...