Current focus of the Web 2.0 COE is to explore, extend, and mature offerings in following areas.

• Authentication/Authorizations: Spring Security, Spring Security Open ID, Spring Security LDAP, Spring Security  ACL, Open Auth 1.0/2.0, Apache Shiro SSO
• Search & Analytics : Searchable - Compass, Apache Solr
• Amazon SimpleDB - SimpleJPA wrapper to utilize Amazon Simple DB storage leveraging JPA standard APIs
• Mail - Asynchronous emailing, Apache Camel, asynchronous Emails
• Ajax RIA - Jquery, JQuery UI
• CMS - Grails Weceem plugin
• Background Job Schedulers : Quartz
• Amazon S3 : To utilize Amazon S3 storage and management of Amazon assets
• RSS / ATOM - To syndicate the content
• Integration with 3rd party API via Apache Camel

We have constructed and extended the available social networking plugins:

• Facebook Plugin- Facebook Authentication, Open Auth 2.0Open Social Graph API - we have written the extensions to facilitate facebook authentications with Spring Security,
• Myspace Open Social plug-in - Open Social and Open Auth 1.0 integrations based on Myspace provided SDK
• Open Social Gadget plug-in - To offer quick and easy social gadgets . This can further integrated with Apache shindig based deployments 
• Twitter - To use twitter as authentication providers and to send tweet messages in bulk to twitter community
• MessagePost Plugin - Seamlessly sends messages to Facebook, Twitter, Myspace users utilizing in-build task queues, seda flows, job schedulers.

We have constructed and extended the available media, storage plug-ins:

• File and asset management for RIA based file uploads, secure and efficient files management
• Media Management - to provide media trans-coding capabilities
• Banner Generator - Image manipulations and banner generations