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   <author>dev.AT.tomcat.apache.org</author>
   <title>Reusable Dialog Components Tag Library</title>
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 <body>

   <section name="Reusable Dialog Components (RDC)  Tag Library" href="Welcome">

     <p>
         JSP 2.0 Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) is
         a framework for creating JSP taglibs that
         aid in rapid development of voice and multimodal applications.
     </p>

       <h2>Project Motivation</h2>
 <p>
   Server-side generation of HTML has proven an effective way of
   generating the user interface for visual Web applications that
   are implemented using server-side application frameworks such
   as Struts. Over time, the effort involved in such HTML
   generation has been reduced by the availability of various JSP
   tag libraries that abstract away the minutiae of HTML
   markup. The goal of the RDC project is to achieve for voice
   applications what JSP tag libraries have already achieved in
   the world of visual Web applications.</p>
 <p>
   The voice application space is seeing rapid growth with the
   maturation of speech technologies along with the arrival of a
   stable and robust voice programming model as defined in the
   <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/">W3C VoiceXML 2.0
   REC</a> few years ago.  A necessary next step in mainstreaming the
   development of server-side voice applications within
   environments like Tomcat is the availability of the appropriate
   tag libraries that help isolate the JSP developer from the
   intricacies of spoken interaction.  The goal is to help package
   specialized speech design skills in the form of JSP tag
   libraries that make it possible for JSP developers to easily
   speech-enable Web applications.
 </p>


       <h2>Project Overview</h2>
 <p>
   The RDC taglib project provides the following pieces:

 <ol>
   <li>A small collection of speech dialog components that aid in basic user interaction.</li>

   <li>An extensible JSP-2.0 framework for implementing additional speech components that can collaborate in producing complex spoken interaction.</li>

   <li> A collection of sample applications that demonstrate the use of these components.</li>
 </ol>

 All functionality is implemented either directly as JSP 2.0
 <i>tag</i> or <i>tagx</i> files, or as Java classes that implement
 the equivalent JSP 2.0 tag implementation interfaces.  Dialog
 components come with speech grammars authored as
 <i>srgs</i> files, a set of default prompts, and the
 associated Java beans that implement validation of the data collected by that component.
 </p>
 <p>The code is under active development, and we are continuing to evolve and enrich the basic framework as we  exercise the presently available functionality by authoring new components and by using these components in real-world voice applications.
 </p>
 <p>All components in the RDC taglib produce VoiceXML 2.0 that can be served to any VoiceXML 2.0 compliant voice browser.
 The generated applications can be deployed to a standard Tomcat server and be accessed by a VoiceXML 2.0 compliant voice browser.
 </p>


       <h2>Requirements</h2>
 <p>
 This tag library requires JSP 2.0 support and has been developed on Tomcat 5.5.
 It depends on the following libraries, many of which can be obtained from various Apache projects:
 <ul>
   <li>jstl.jar and standard.jar (JSTL 1.1.2)</li>
   <li>jsp-api.jar (JSP 2.0) for building custom tags</li>
   <li>commons-el.jar (1.0) for delayed EL evaluation</li>
   <li>struts.jar (1.2.9), commons-digester.jar (1.8.1) and
       commons-beanutils.jar (1.8.0) for struts examples and the
       rule-based directed dialog</li>
   <li>commons-logging.jar (1.1.1) for logging in taglib and sample
       applications</li>
   <li>commons-scxml.jar (0.9) needed for the SCXML dialog management
       strategy of the RDC group container</li>
 </ul>
 It may be possible to use Commons library versions lesser than the ones quoted here.
 </p>
 <p>
 A majority of the tags implemented by this tag library have been
 created as <i>.tag</i> files.
 Tag handlers implemented in Java extend JSP 2.0's
 <i>SimpleTagSupport</i>.
 </p>
     </section>

   <section name="Documentation" href="Documentation">

   <p>For more information about the Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) Tag Library,
     look at the on-line documentation:
   <ul>
   <li>
     View the current release <a href="1.0/index.html">
     RDC 1.0 Taglib Documentation</a>
   </li>
   <li>
     View the development version of the <a href="taglibs-rdc/tlddoc.html">
     RDC Taglib Documentation</a>
   </li>
   </ul>
   </p>

   </section>

   <section name="Download" href="Download">

   <p>Download a binary distribution of the Reusable Dialog
   Components (RDC) Tag Library:
   <ul>
   <li>
     Download the RDC Tag Library 1.0 release from the
     <a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/taglibs/rdc/">
     Apache Archives</a>
   </li>
   </ul>
   </p>

   <p>For information on how to use the distributions in the download section,
     look at the following documentation:
   <ul>
     <li>Using the Apache Taglibs
       <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/taglibs/site/using.html">
       Binary Distribution</a>
     </li>
     <li>Using the Apache Taglibs
       <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/taglibs/site/building.html">
       Source Distribution</a>
     </li>
   </ul>
   </p>

   </section>

   <section name="RDC News" href="News">

     <ul>
       <li><b>01/12/2009</b>
         The build has been moved to Maven2.
       </li>
       <li><b>08/01/2006</b>
         The SCXML code has been refactored as a generic engine into its own
         sub-project <a href="http://commons.apache.org/scxml/">Commons
         SCXML</a>. The RDC taglib has a new dependency of Commons SCXML.
       </li>
       <li><b>07/29/2005</b>
         The RDC tag library has provided an alpha version of an SCXML engine, and a
         SCXML dialog management strategy for the RDC group container.
       </li>
       <li><b>07/20/2005</b>
         The RDC tag library has graduated out of Taglibs sandbox with a 1.0 release.
       </li>
       <li><b>04/25/2005</b>
         Internationalization support has been added to all component tags.
       </li>
       <li><b>02/25/2005</b>
         The Music Store sample application is now multi-channel (Speech + small device GUI)!
       </li>
       <li><b>02/12/2005</b>
         Check out the RDC based Music Store sample application (uses Amazon Web Services)!
       </li>
       <li><b>01/24/2005</b>
         Check out the new features in the RDC pre beta release!
       </li>
       <li><b>09/10/2004</b>
         Check out the new Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) taglib!
       </li>
     </ul>

   </section>

   <section name="Contributors" href="Contributors">

     <p>List of contributors:</p>

     <ul>
       <li>Rahul Akolkar</li>
     </ul>

   </section>

   </body>

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	<properties>
	<author>dev.AT.tomcat.apache.org</author>
	<title>Reusable Dialog Components Tag Library</title>
	</properties>

	<body>

	<section name="Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) Tag Library" href="Welcome">

	<p>
	JSP 2.0 Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) is
	a framework for creating JSP taglibs that
	aid in rapid development of voice and multimodal applications.
	</p>

	<h2>Project Motivation</h2>
	<p>
	Server-side generation of HTML has proven an effective way of
	generating the user interface for visual Web applications that
	are implemented using server-side application frameworks such
	as Struts. Over time, the effort involved in such HTML
	generation has been reduced by the availability of various JSP
	tag libraries that abstract away the minutiae of HTML
	markup. The goal of the RDC project is to achieve for voice
	applications what JSP tag libraries have already achieved in
	the world of visual Web applications.</p>
	<p>
	The voice application space is seeing rapid growth with the
	maturation of speech technologies along with the arrival of a
	stable and robust voice programming model as defined in the
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/">W3C VoiceXML 2.0
	REC</a> few years ago. A necessary next step in mainstreaming the
	development of server-side voice applications within
	environments like Tomcat is the availability of the appropriate
	tag libraries that help isolate the JSP developer from the
	intricacies of spoken interaction. The goal is to help package
	specialized speech design skills in the form of JSP tag
	libraries that make it possible for JSP developers to easily
	speech-enable Web applications.
	</p>


	<h2>Project Overview</h2>
	<p>
	The RDC taglib project provides the following pieces:

	<ol>
	<li>A small collection of speech dialog components that aid in basic user interaction.</li>

	<li>An extensible JSP-2.0 framework for implementing additional speech components that can collaborate in producing complex spoken interaction.</li>

	<li> A collection of sample applications that demonstrate the use of these components.</li>
	</ol>

	All functionality is implemented either directly as JSP 2.0
	<i>tag</i> or <i>tagx</i> files, or as Java classes that implement
	the equivalent JSP 2.0 tag implementation interfaces. Dialog
	components come with speech grammars authored as
	<i>srgs</i> files, a set of default prompts, and the
	associated Java beans that implement validation of the data collected by that component.
	</p>
	<p>The code is under active development, and we are continuing to evolve and enrich the basic framework as we exercise the presently available functionality by authoring new components and by using these components in real-world voice applications.
	</p>
	<p>All components in the RDC taglib produce VoiceXML 2.0 that can be served to any VoiceXML 2.0 compliant voice browser.
	The generated applications can be deployed to a standard Tomcat server and be accessed by a VoiceXML 2.0 compliant voice browser.
	</p>


	<h2>Requirements</h2>
	<p>
	This tag library requires JSP 2.0 support and has been developed on Tomcat 5.5.
	It depends on the following libraries, many of which can be obtained from various Apache projects:
	<ul>
	<li>jstl.jar and standard.jar (JSTL 1.1.2)</li>
	<li>jsp-api.jar (JSP 2.0) for building custom tags</li>
	<li>commons-el.jar (1.0) for delayed EL evaluation</li>
	<li>struts.jar (1.2.9), commons-digester.jar (1.8.1) and
	commons-beanutils.jar (1.8.0) for struts examples and the
	rule-based directed dialog</li>
	<li>commons-logging.jar (1.1.1) for logging in taglib and sample
	applications</li>
	<li>commons-scxml.jar (0.9) needed for the SCXML dialog management
	strategy of the RDC group container</li>
	</ul>
	It may be possible to use Commons library versions lesser than the ones quoted here.
	</p>
	<p>
	A majority of the tags implemented by this tag library have been
	created as <i>.tag</i> files.
	Tag handlers implemented in Java extend JSP 2.0's
	<i>SimpleTagSupport</i>.
	</p>
	</section>

	<section name="Documentation" href="Documentation">

	<p>For more information about the Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) Tag Library,
	look at the on-line documentation:
	<ul>
	<li>
	View the current release <a href="1.0/index.html">
	RDC 1.0 Taglib Documentation</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	View the development version of the <a href="taglibs-rdc/tlddoc.html">
	RDC Taglib Documentation</a>
	</li>
	</ul>
	</p>

	</section>

	<section name="Download" href="Download">

	<p>Download a binary distribution of the Reusable Dialog
	Components (RDC) Tag Library:
	<ul>
	<li>
	Download the RDC Tag Library 1.0 release from the
	<a href="http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/taglibs/rdc/">
	Apache Archives</a>
	</li>
	</ul>
	</p>

	<p>For information on how to use the distributions in the download section,
	look at the following documentation:
	<ul>
	<li>Using the Apache Taglibs
	<a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/taglibs/site/using.html">
	Binary Distribution</a>
	</li>
	<li>Using the Apache Taglibs
	<a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/taglibs/site/building.html">
	Source Distribution</a>
	</li>
	</ul>
	</p>

	</section>

	<section name="RDC News" href="News">

	<ul>
	<li><b>01/12/2009</b>
	The build has been moved to Maven2.
	</li>
	<li><b>08/01/2006</b>
	The SCXML code has been refactored as a generic engine into its own
	sub-project <a href="http://commons.apache.org/scxml/">Commons
	SCXML</a>. The RDC taglib has a new dependency of Commons SCXML.
	</li>
	<li><b>07/29/2005</b>
	The RDC tag library has provided an alpha version of an SCXML engine, and a
	SCXML dialog management strategy for the RDC group container.
	</li>
	<li><b>07/20/2005</b>
	The RDC tag library has graduated out of Taglibs sandbox with a 1.0 release.
	</li>
	<li><b>04/25/2005</b>
	Internationalization support has been added to all component tags.
	</li>
	<li><b>02/25/2005</b>
	The Music Store sample application is now multi-channel (Speech + small device GUI)!
	</li>
	<li><b>02/12/2005</b>
	Check out the RDC based Music Store sample application (uses Amazon Web Services)!
	</li>
	<li><b>01/24/2005</b>
	Check out the new features in the RDC pre beta release!
	</li>
	<li><b>09/10/2004</b>
	Check out the new Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) taglib!
	</li>
	</ul>

	</section>

	<section name="Contributors" href="Contributors">

	<p>List of contributors:</p>

	<ul>
	<li>Rahul Akolkar</li>
	</ul>

	</section>

	</body>

	</document>