Community is working on the following topics on dev list: BPEL integration with Ode (partially there), OSGI, distribution, Policy Framework, XQuery implementation component, Geronimo/Tuscany integration and tests to enhance Tuscany. A new thread on management was started by Mike Edwards... Get involved where you like. *Would be great to update the user doc with new runtimes that you have tried. Simply go the user doc and add more sections. Thanks. First phase of Geronimo integeration is complete. See this thread. There is much more to be done if interested. XQuery implementation is now in SVN. More discussions are happening around use cases on the mailing list. There is more work to be done if interested to help. Next SCA Native release is being discussed on the dev list. Help define the contentand develop it. Please share information that you think will benefit other users or the project. link the information to this page. This book is getting good reviews: SOA for the Business Developer Concepts, BPEL, and SCA A series of vendor neutral briefings on SCA/SDO are being held in various countrie. You can find more information here. Tuscany will be used to demo. Short article on Tuscany at infoq