Just found this after following a link on the scala reddit (http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2008/12/esme_twitter_clone_in_scala.html)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/11862 "Esme's API is as bad anything I saw in the SOAP/XMLRPC days. I'm dumbfounded this can get incubated in the ASF." Yikes. D.
