Thanks for moving so fast on this Dan. We certainly do need web services functionality for OACS and I agree long term its the way to go. But from what I read and heard it doesn't sound like the web services interface to uPortal is quite ready yet.
http://lat-inc.com/news/6-02/6-13.htm
Is there a simpler way to do a proof of concept so that we can generate interest from uPortal users, thus increasing the available resources for additional integration?