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 <properties>
   <author>Rahul Akolkar</author>
   <title>The Jakarta-Taglibs Project: Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) Tag Library</title>
 </properties>

 <body>

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

     <p>
         JSP-2.0  Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) ---
         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/2004/REC-voicexml20-20040316/">W3C
   VoiceXML 2.0 REC</a>.  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:
 <itemizedlist>
   <listitem>
 <p>A small collection of speech dialog components that aid in basic user interaction.</p>
 </listitem>

   <listitem>
 <p> A collection of sample applications that demonstrate the use of these components.</p>
 </listitem>

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

 </itemizedlist>
 All functionality is implemented either directly as JSP2.0
 <literal>tagx</literal> files, or as Java classes that implement
 the equivalent JSP2 tag implementation interfaces.  Dialog
 components come with speech grammars authored as
 <literal>srgs</literal> 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 5.0.
 It depends on the following libraries from the Apache project:
 <simplelist>
   <member>jstl.jar and standard.jar ---JSTL 1.0</member>
   <member>jsp-api.jar ---for building custom tags</member>
   <member>commons-el.jar  --- for delayed EL evaluation</member>
   <member>struts.jar, commons-digester.jar and commons-beanutils.jar  --- for struts examples</member>
 </simplelist>
 A majority of the tags implemented by this tag library have been
 created as <literal>.tag</literal> files.
 Tag handlers implemented in Java extend JSP-2.0's
 <literal>SimpleTagSupport</literal>.
 </p>
     </section>


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

     <news>
       <newsitem date="02/25/2005">
         The Music Store sample application is now multi-channel (Speech + small device GUI)!
       </newsitem>
       <newsitem date="02/12/2005">
         Check out the RDC based Music Store sample application (uses Amazon Web Services)!
       </newsitem>
       <newsitem date="01/24/2005">
         Check out the new features in the RDC pre beta release!
       </newsitem>
       <newsitem date="09/10/2004">
         Check out the new Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) taglib!
       </newsitem>
     </news>

   </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>
   <!-- Uncomment the below and modify as needed when doing a release
   <li>
     View the current release <a href="{release-name}/index.html">
     RDC 1.0 Beta 1 Taglib Documentation</a></li>
   -->
   <li>
     View the development version of the <a href="index.html">
     RDC Taglib Documentation</a>
   </li>
   </ul>
   </p>

   <p>For information on how to use the distributions,
     look at the following documentation:
   <ul>
     <li>Using the Jakarta-Taglibs
       <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/binarydist.html">
       Binary Distribution</a>
     </li>
     <li>Using the Jakarta-Taglibs
       <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/sourcedist.html">
       Source Distribution</a>
     </li>
   </ul>
   </p>

   </section>

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

   <p>Download a binary distribution of the Reusable Dialog
   Components (RDC)  Tag Library
   <ul>
   <!-- Uncomment the below and modify as needed when doing a release
   <li>
     Download the RDC Tag Library 1.0 Beta 1 release from an
     <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi#Release%20Builds">
     Apache Jakarta Project Mirror</a>
   </li>
   -->
   <li>
     Download the Reusable Dialog Components (RDC)  Tag Library
     <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs-sandbox/nightly/projects/rdc/">
     nightly development build</a> (contains RDC taglib binary files)
   </li>
   </ul>
   </p>

   <p>The following sandbox distributions are available for download:
   <ul>
   <li>
     Download
     <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs-sandbox/nightly/src/">
     Jakarta-Taglibs Sandbox Source</a> (contains RDC taglib source files)
   </li>
   <li>
     Download entire
     <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs-sandbox/nightly">
     Jakarta-Taglibs Sandbox Distribution</a>
   </li>
   </ul>
   </p>

   <p>The following distributions are also available for download:
   <ul>
   <li>
     Download
     <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs/nightly/src/">
     Jakarta-Taglibs Source</a>
   </li>
   <li>
     Download entire
     <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs/nightly">
     Jakarta-Taglibs Distribution</a>
   </li>
   </ul>
   </p>

   </section>

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

     <p>List of contributors:</p>

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

   </section>

   </body>

 </document>
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	<document url="./intro.xml">
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	Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation.

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	You may obtain a copy of the License at

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	distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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	Todos:

	Change all instances of {your-name} with your name, this is
	for things such as document author and list of contributors.

	If you are doing a release of the taglib, replace {release-version}
	with the version of the taglib.

	For a news item, replace date="MM/DD/YYYY" with the date.
	-->

	<properties>
	<author>Rahul Akolkar</author>
	<title>The Jakarta-Taglibs Project: Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) Tag Library</title>
	</properties>

	<body>

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

	<p>
	JSP-2.0 Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) ---
	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/2004/REC-voicexml20-20040316/">W3C
	VoiceXML 2.0 REC</a>. 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:
	<itemizedlist>
	<listitem>
	<p>A small collection of speech dialog components that aid in basic user interaction.</p>
	</listitem>

	<listitem>
	<p> A collection of sample applications that demonstrate the use of these components.</p>
	</listitem>

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

	</itemizedlist>
	All functionality is implemented either directly as JSP2.0
	<literal>tagx</literal> files, or as Java classes that implement
	the equivalent JSP2 tag implementation interfaces. Dialog
	components come with speech grammars authored as
	<literal>srgs</literal> 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 5.0.
	It depends on the following libraries from the Apache project:
	<simplelist>
	<member>jstl.jar and standard.jar ---JSTL 1.0</member>
	<member>jsp-api.jar ---for building custom tags</member>
	<member>commons-el.jar --- for delayed EL evaluation</member>
	<member>struts.jar, commons-digester.jar and commons-beanutils.jar --- for struts examples</member>
	</simplelist>
	A majority of the tags implemented by this tag library have been
	created as <literal>.tag</literal> files.
	Tag handlers implemented in Java extend JSP-2.0's
	<literal>SimpleTagSupport</literal>.
	</p>
	</section>


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

	<news>
	<newsitem date="02/25/2005">
	The Music Store sample application is now multi-channel (Speech + small device GUI)!
	</newsitem>
	<newsitem date="02/12/2005">
	Check out the RDC based Music Store sample application (uses Amazon Web Services)!
	</newsitem>
	<newsitem date="01/24/2005">
	Check out the new features in the RDC pre beta release!
	</newsitem>
	<newsitem date="09/10/2004">
	Check out the new Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) taglib!
	</newsitem>
	</news>

	</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>
	<!-- Uncomment the below and modify as needed when doing a release
	<li>
	View the current release <a href="{release-name}/index.html">
	RDC 1.0 Beta 1 Taglib Documentation</a></li>
	-->
	<li>
	View the development version of the <a href="index.html">
	RDC Taglib Documentation</a>
	</li>
	</ul>
	</p>

	<p>For information on how to use the distributions,
	look at the following documentation:
	<ul>
	<li>Using the Jakarta-Taglibs
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/binarydist.html">
	Binary Distribution</a>
	</li>
	<li>Using the Jakarta-Taglibs
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/sourcedist.html">
	Source Distribution</a>
	</li>
	</ul>
	</p>

	</section>

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

	<p>Download a binary distribution of the Reusable Dialog
	Components (RDC) Tag Library
	<ul>
	<!-- Uncomment the below and modify as needed when doing a release
	<li>
	Download the RDC Tag Library 1.0 Beta 1 release from an
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi#Release%20Builds">
	Apache Jakarta Project Mirror</a>
	</li>
	-->
	<li>
	Download the Reusable Dialog Components (RDC) Tag Library
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs-sandbox/nightly/projects/rdc/">
	nightly development build</a> (contains RDC taglib binary files)
	</li>
	</ul>
	</p>

	<p>The following sandbox distributions are available for download:
	<ul>
	<li>
	Download
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs-sandbox/nightly/src/">
	Jakarta-Taglibs Sandbox Source</a> (contains RDC taglib source files)
	</li>
	<li>
	Download entire
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs-sandbox/nightly">
	Jakarta-Taglibs Sandbox Distribution</a>
	</li>
	</ul>
	</p>

	<p>The following distributions are also available for download:
	<ul>
	<li>
	Download
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs/nightly/src/">
	Jakarta-Taglibs Source</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	Download entire
	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs/nightly">
	Jakarta-Taglibs Distribution</a>
	</li>
	</ul>
	</p>

	</section>

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

	<p>List of contributors:</p>

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

	</section>

	</body>

	</document>