[Communicator-user] GCSI and web services ? What do you think ?

[Cristi U. <c....@sh...>]

It occurred to me and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that the design of
GCSI will make it a good candidate to a Web Service based infrastructure
with some changes perhaps.

Today if somebody would like to build a GSCI based dialogue system,
he/she needs to download the infrastructure, compile it, try to put
together a collection of servers and finally write a HUB program that
will integrate them into a workable dialogue system. Getting all the
necessary servers could be a real pain not mention making them run under
one's operating systems. 

With the increase growing of Internet bandwidth and with the increasing
popularity of web based services based on (JAX or .NET), GCSI compliant
servers could be made available online by various developing parties.
The advantage is that they would be upgraded and maintained permanently.


Tomorrow maybe, in order to build a GCSI based dialogue system, one
would only need to download and compile the HUB and start writing a HUB
program that will integrate various GCSI servers available as web
services...

Among the components that are very suitable to be transformed into web
services I see the Speech Recognition, AUDIO???, Multimodal User
Interaction, Text to Speech, Natural Language Understanding. 

The focus will be perhaps on developing some customized GCSI servers for
one's business or task.

Is just an idea that I wanted to make it available instead of letting it
go away. :)) thanks for reading it.

cristi
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