Ian Moraes

Enterprise system developers have embraced the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development model and the collection of Java APIs for developing standard, component-based, multitiered enterprise solutions. These APIs provide a standard mechanism for accessing pertinent system services typically required for enterprise systems development such as databases (JDBC), asynchronous communication (JMS), transaction support (JTA), e-mail (JavaMail/JAF), distributed computing (RMI/IIOP), naming and directory services (JNDI) and Web client presentation (servlets/JSP). Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a core J2EE API that provides for a standard server-side component model. JNDI is an enterprise Java API that provides naming and directory functionality using a common set of classes and interfaces that are independent of a specific naming and directory service implement... (more)

SOAP Messages with Attachments

Organizations are being challenged to partner with other organizations in order to respond more rapidly to new business opportunities, increase the efficiency of business processes, and reduce the time to market for their products. To address these issues, they're typically required to develop interoperability between disparate, legacy applications to support collaborative business processes. This is accomplished by coordinating the exchange of business documents between applications in a predefined manner. For example, two insurance companies with different systems may need to ... (more)

Java Mail

E-mail functionality is an important system requirement in areas such as e-commerce, customer care, work-flow management and unified messaging. In addition, some application architectures may need to support not only standard mail protocols but also proprietary ones. If you're charged with the task of developing an e-mail client application in Java, you have a number of architectural and design options: building your own services layer to support multiple mail protocols, purchasing third-party components that provide e-mail features or using JavaSoft's JavaMail framework. This ar... (more)

3G Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)

3G is not yet fully established, but the promise of increased bandwidth and greater speed has encouraged the development of more sophisticated wireless applications that can use this higher capacity. Today's mobile phones are used primarily for their voice capabilities such as making and receiving calls and checking voice mail. Models that enable users to do more, such as manage e-mail or surf the Web, are available, but they lack rich multimedia features such as enhanced graphics, video, and audio, and have limited bandwidth. Current wireless networks or second generation (2G) n... (more)

VoiceXML CCXML SALT

There's been an industry shift from using proprietary ap-proaches for developing speech-enabled applications to using strategies and architectures based on industry standards. The latter offer developers of speech software a number of advantages, such as application portability and the ability to leverage existing Web infrastructure, promote speech vendor interoperability, increase developer productivity (knowledge of speech vendor's low-level API and resource management is not required), and easily accommodate, for example, multimodal applications. Multimodal applications can ov... (more)