You’ve got to be careful with alliances. When two companies work on the same thing then try to make those things work together, hilarity ensues. Last time I wrote about WSRP ["WSRP is Soo dead"]. WSRP in my opinion is a dead man walking. This time the topic is “Open Ajax”. [LINK].
The Open Ajax Alliance has been in existence since late 2005/early 2006. In that time I am not sure what they’ve done other than publish the OpenAjax Hub.
The charter is “The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of vendors, …

Here’s a list of things I hear about frequently that generally mean or count for nothing. These are features that people will never use but typically if your product doesn’t support it, folks won’t buy it.
Ask a question in a meeting on any of these and you’ll give off an air of being really tech-savvy. Unfortunately the question and answer will be pointless. People ask anyway:

BPEL compliance (Business Process Execution Language): "Is your engine BPEL compliant?" Doesn’t mean anything. You’ll never switch orchestration engines. Even if you …

Marc Logemann has asked in his blog [LINK] "Is WSRP Dead?", a question prompted by Marc’s failure to find wsrp producers on the web.
Judging by the responses at TheServerSide.net [LINK] it would seem the answer is unfortunately no.
If you look at the spec though it’s pretty blatantly obvious to me that the real answer is it was never alive!!!
WSRP stands for Web Service for Remote Portlets. It lets you share a portlet hosted in a portal with other portals based on configuration alone.
The host (WSRP producer) instantiates …