Hitesh Seth is chief technology officer of ikigo, Inc., a provider of XML-based web-services monitoring and management software. A freelance writer and well-known speaker, he regularly writes for technology publications on VoiceXML, Web Services, J2EE and Microsoft .NET, Wireless Computing & Enterprise/B2B Integration. He is the conference chair for VoiceXML Planet Conference & Expo.
2003 was definitely a positive year for the economy and the world of i-technology - and the year's success also raised the bar for what needs to happen in 2004, if we really want to see recovery. Although this statement focuses on financial aspects, it provides an indication of what we...
Web Services for Remote Portlets, or WSRP, was recently approved as a standard by OASIS. Although a number of Web services standards are being worked on by different OASIS technical committees (TCs) - around Web services orchestration, management, security, reliable messaging, and ...
2003 has been an exciting year so far for XML and Web services technologies and standardization. Most of the focus has been on stabilization of existing initiatives and making XML-based communications more robust, secure, and manageable.
I'm one of those technology enthusiasts who like to be on the edge, which means that if I'm not creating news, I at least like to read a lot to keep up with the rapidly changing world of technology. A part of my morning (and sometimes even my night) is spent taking a good look at s...
Microsoft's flagship technology conference, commonly known as Tech·Ed, was held in Dallas in early June. Much has been written elsewhere about this event, but I would like to point out a couple of things I thought were quite significant, from an XML perspective.
Even though interoperability and making systems and enterprises work together have been the main goals of XML and Web services technologies and standards, the quest for a better way to develop applications has led XML in another direction: around consuming XML/Web services to developin...
Enterprise application systems - ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), etc. - have for decades run mission-critical systems for medium to large organizations. With their large breadth of integrated, prebuilt functiona...
'Java and XML - portable code and portable data.' Even though this saying has been around since Java developers began using XML, developers have always faced a general XML programming-related productivity problem: manipulating XML content is rather different from manipulating Java obj...
Better known in the i-technology world as enterprise application integration (EAI), B2B integration, or middleware, integration involves connecting internal systems with external business partners, customers, and suppliers. Integrating systems running on heterogeneous platforms, typica...
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002 provides an out-of-box solution for integrating internal systems and external business partners. BizTalk Server 2002 is its second generation, succeeding BizTalk Server 2000. It is built on top of a core Microsoft Windows 2000-centric infrastructure runnin...
On February 10, 1998, a revolutionary Internet technology child was born into this world and given an acronym that has since become synonymous with i-technology itself. Even though it enters only its sixth year this month, XML has had a widespread effect on the nature of generations of...
We're all hoping for a revolutionary year for the economy and the world of i-technology in particular. The New Year also marks an important phenomenon: all of us try to have a New Year's resolution (mine is to gain fame and riches in the world of i-technology). And of course, we tend t...
Two foundation technologies, Java and XML, represent the marriage of portable code and data. A key ingredient of a successful marriage is compatibility. XML and a number of XML-based vocabularies are being used extensively as the standard data-exchange mechanism (and beyond) by both st...
If you're a developer looking for a quick and useful reference on some of the fundamental standards around XML, look no more. In a handy paperback edition priced at $24.99, Essential XML Quick Reference from Addison-Wesley is a great buy. Regardless of which programming language you us...
One of the key reasons behind the explosive growth of the Web is the simplicity and ease of use of the underlying standards - TCP/IP, HTTP, and HTML. Experts and critics have often argued about what's wrong with HTML and HTTP and why we need IPv6 et al. For instance, with the advent of...
XML is a relatively simple development. Yet it has probably been the most powerful development to date in the world of i-Technology. From being the launchpad for information delivery on the Web (XHTML, SMIL, SVG) to electronic business communication (Chem standards, ebXML, Ro...
Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) is a set of XML-based tags that can be added to existing Web-based applications, enhancing the user interface through interactive speech recognition.
When building interactive voice recognition applications, we are inevitably faced with the challenge of providing advanced telephony call-control capabilities. In some scenarios we'd like to bridge two calls for a conferencing application, in others we'd like to provide basic call rout...
As an open standard, VoiceXML truly leverages the knowledge and products that the industry has developed around Advanced Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), telephony interfaces, voice printing, and Voice over IP (VoIP). As an open standard, what VoiceXML has made possible ...
One thing weve learned from Web-based application development is that tools are useful only if they can reuse components and third-party libraries and make it easy to assemble applications. This article reviews how we can build modular speech applications using VoiceXML. The focus ...
Mac OS X sports a new look, not just on the outside with its great look and feel but also on the inside. OS X is proudly built on top of a BSD Unix-based core foundation. An exciting aspect of the new operating system is that the latest version of the Java 2 platform (J2SE v1.3) is pre...
Last year in this column (XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 2) we reviewed an initial set of VoiceXML development tools and integrated development environments (IDEs). Now we'll review some of the new tool sets developed by independent software vendors for the development and testing of dynamic spe...
Java and XML are perfectly married. Java represents a technology evolution for platform-independent development and deployment, and an effective mechanism for achieving distributed computing. XML, a very simple concept, has taken the industry by storm and is revolutionizing how data is...
Referred to by some as the fourth wave of computing, Web services intend to standardize the way business applications communicate with each other, whether they are within an enterprise or communicating with external partners, customers, and suppliers. In this article we explore the key...
VoiceXML and interactive voice portals can enhance self-service and mobile-enable employees, customers, and partners. Voice portals provide anytime/anywhere access to vital information through a simple, natural interface such as speech-enabled conversations.
In Part 1 of this article (XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 6) we introduced the key components of the Microsoft .NET Framework - ASP.NET, C#, and Web Services. In Part 2 we apply the .NET technologies to develop an interactive VoiceXML application. Toward the end of the article we review the conc...
In this fourth article in the 'Spotlight on VoiceXML' series we return to our hands-on approach for developing VoiceXML applications. In Part 1 we cover the basic fundamentals of the new Microsoft .NET Framework and its components. In Part 2 we'll apply .NET technologies, particularly ...
The previous article in this series, 'Tools for Developing VoiceXML Applications' (Vol. 2, issue 3), reviewed tools that can aid the development and testing of VoiceXML applications. Now we dive into the mechanisms of writing the grammars and review the standards being developed around...
The previous article in this series, 'Building VoiceXML Applications Using J2EE' (XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 2), discussed building dynamic and interactive voice applications using VoiceXML and J2EE. In this issue we'll focus on the tools available to aid development and testing of VoiceXML-...
Welcome to VoiceXML. This column focuses on VoiceXML (Voice eXtensible Markup Language), an emerging standard (defined by VoiceXML Forum, submitted to the W3C Voice Browser Activity Group) for the development of interactive voice-based applications. It's one of the first standards that...
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