[gnue] r8531 - trunk/www/news

[jcater]

Author: jcater
Date: 2006-07-11 10:30:55 -0500 (Tue, 11 Jul 2006)
New Revision: 8531

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   trunk/www/news/10182
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added a news update from Bayonne

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+Title: Updates from GNU Bayonne
+Author: address@hidden
+Date: 2006-07-11
+
+There have been many recent and interesting developments with GNU
+Bayonne, some of which directly relate to the practical aspects of it's
+use within GNU Enterprise.
+
+First, we have recently introduced Bayonne web services.  This is a
+lightweight XML service which allows other application servers (and end
+user applications) to invoke Bayonne features and functions over HTTP.
+There is an initial reference implementation of a Perl module to use
+Bayonne web services in CPAN, and a partially completed Python module.
+
+The obvious use of such services would be to enable telephone related
+operations in gnue.  The most basic example that comes to my mind is
+enabling pop-up dialing requests using contact information (phone
+numbers, etc) that may be found in various forms.  Other possibilities
+could include scheduling automated calls, etc.
+
+Second, recent releases of GNU Bayonne2 have re-introduced XML form
+parsing.  This allows Bayonne to request a XML document from a web
+server, and then offer documents using speech synthesis and telephone
+keypad navigation.  This suggests the possibility of Bayonne operating
+as a GNUE telephone form "client", an idea once advocated within GNU
+Enterprise.
+
+Third, we are introducing features over the next 6 months to support the
+use of GNU Bayonne as a complete stand-alone office phone system.  To
+support this, GNU Bayonne 2 makes use of a feature known as service
+bindings, and these can be used to integrate meta data for users,
+extensions, etc, which could be managed from a GNUE hosted database and
+forms clients as part of a complete integrated business solution.
+
+Each of these areas of development suggest new and interesting ways in
+which GNU Bayonne can come closer to serving an originally intended role
+as a communications server within GNU Enterprise framework as a whole.
+Most news and up to date information about GNU Bayonne can be found on
+the GNU Telephony wiki, found at http://wiki.gnutelephony.org.