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Hitesh Seth
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Hitesh Seth is chief technology officer of ikigo, Inc., a provider of XML-based web-services monitoring and management software. A freelance writer and well-known speaker, he regularly writes for technology publications on VoiceXML, Web Services, J2EE and Microsoft .NET, Wireless Computing & Enterprise/B2B Integration. He is the conference chair for VoiceXML Planet Conference & Expo.
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Raising the Bar By Hitesh Seth 2003 was definitely a
positive year for the
economy and the world of
i-technology - and the
year's success also
raised the bar for what
needs to happen in 2004,
if we really want to see
recovery. Although this
statement focuses on
financial aspects, it
provides an... Feb. 20, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 9,033 | WSRP Re-ignites Interest
in Portals By Hitesh Seth Web Services for Remote
Portlets, or WSRP, was
recently approved as a
standard by OASIS.
Although a number of Web
services standards are
being worked on by
different OASIS technical
committees (TCs) -
around Web services
orchestration,
management, security,
... Oct. 3, 2003 11:02 AM Reads: 14,280 | Let's Get Together By Hitesh Seth 2003 has been an exciting
year so far for XML and
Web services
technologies and
standardization. Most of
the focus has been on
stabilization of existing
initiatives and making
XML-based communications
more robust, secure, and
manageable. Aug. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 8,471 Replies: 1 | Revisiting RSS By Hitesh Seth I'm one of those
technology enthusiasts
who like to be on the
edge, which means that
if I'm not creating news,
I at least like to read a
lot to keep up with the
rapidly changing world of
technology. A part of my
morning (and sometimes
even my night) is spent
ta... Aug. 6, 2003 11:49 AM Reads: 9,467 Replies: 3 | An XML Take on
Tech·Ed By Hitesh Seth Microsoft's flagship
technology conference,
commonly known as
Tech·Ed, was held in
Dallas in early June.
Much has been written
elsewhere about this
event, but I would like
to point out a couple of
things I thought were
quite significant, from
an XML perspective. Jul. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 8,287 | Beyond Integration By Hitesh Seth Even though
interoperability and
making systems and
enterprises work together
have been the main goals
of XML and Web services
technologies and
standards, the quest for
a better way to develop
applications has led XML
in another direction:
around consuming XML/Web... May. 22, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 7,960 | XML in Enterprise
Applications By Hitesh Seth Enterprise application
systems - ERP (Enterprise
Resource Planning), CRM
(Customer Relationship
Management), SCM (Supply
Chain Management), etc. -
have for decades run
mission-critical systems
for medium to large
organizations. With their
large breadth of
integrat... Mar. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 8,789 Replies: 1 | XMLBeans By Hitesh Seth 'Java and XML - portable
code and portable data.'
Even though this saying
has been around since
Java developers began
using XML, developers
have always faced a
general XML
programming-related
productivity problem:
manipulating XML content
is rather different from... Mar. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 11,338 | XML and Integration By Hitesh Seth Better known in the
i-technology world as
enterprise application
integration (EAI), B2B
integration, or
middleware, integration
involves connecting
internal systems with
external business
partners, customers, and
suppliers. Integrating
systems running on
heterog... Feb. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 10,267 | Microsoft BizTalk Server
2002 Part 1 By Hitesh Seth Microsoft BizTalk Server
2002 provides an
out-of-box solution for
integrating internal
systems and external
business partners.
BizTalk Server 2002 is
its second generation,
succeeding BizTalk Server
2000. It is built on top
of a core Microsoft
Windows 2000-centric... Feb. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 9,556 | Celebrate XML's 5th
Birthday in Boston By Hitesh Seth On February 10, 1998, a
revolutionary Internet
technology child was born
into this world and given
an acronym that has since
become synonymous with
i-technology itself. Even
though it enters only its
sixth year this month,
XML has had a widespread
effect on the natu... Jan. 31, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 7,595 | XML in 2002 and Beyond By Hitesh Seth We're all hoping for a
revolutionary year for
the economy and the world
of i-technology in
particular. The New Year
also marks an important
phenomenon: all of us try
to have a New Year's
resolution (mine is to
gain fame and riches in
the world of
i-technology). An... Jan. 31, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 7,508 | The Road So Far...and the
Road Ahead By Hitesh Seth One of the key reasons
behind the explosive
growth of the Web is the
simplicity and ease of
use of the underlying
standards - TCP/IP, HTTP,
and HTML. Experts and
critics have often argued
about what's wrong with
HTML and HTTP and why we
need IPv6 et al. For
instan... Jan. 3, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 7,926 | Java Architecture for XML
Binding By Hitesh Seth Two foundation
technologies, Java and
XML, represent the
marriage of portable code
and data. A key
ingredient of a
successful marriage is
compatibility. XML and a
number of XML-based
vocabularies are being
used extensively as the
standard data-exchange
mechanism... Jan. 3, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 10,987 | Essential XML Quick
Reference By Hitesh Seth If you're a developer
looking for a quick and
useful reference on some
of the fundamental
standards around XML,
look no more. In a handy
paperback edition priced
at $24.99, Essential XML
Quick Reference from
Addison-Wesley is a great
buy. Regardless of which
progr... Jan. 3, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 8,489 | The Real Success of XML By Hitesh Seth XML is a relatively
simple development. Yet
it has probably been the
most powerful development
to date in the world of
i-Technology.
From being the launchpad
for information delivery
on the Web (XHTML, SMIL,
SVG) to electronic
business communication
(Che... Nov. 25, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 9,260 | Introduction to SALT By Hitesh Seth Speech Application
Language Tags (SALT) is a
set of XML-based tags
that can be added to
existing Web-based
applications, enhancing
the user interface
through interactive
speech recognition. Nov. 25, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 9,915 Replies: 1 | Introduction to CCXML By Hitesh Seth When building interactive
voice recognition
applications, we are
inevitably faced with the
challenge of providing
advanced telephony
call-control
capabilities. In some
scenarios we'd like to
bridge two calls for a
conferencing application,
in others we'd like to
... Sep. 27, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 8,935 | Selecting a VoiceXML
Gateway By Hitesh Seth As an open standard,
VoiceXML truly leverages
the knowledge and
products that the
industry has developed
around Advanced Speech
Recognition (ASR),
Text-to-Speech (TTS),
telephony interfaces,
voice printing, and Voice
over IP (VoIP). As an
open standard, what
Voi... Jun. 20, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 9,716 | Modular Speech
Application Development
Using VoiceXML By Hitesh Seth One thing weve learned
from Web-based
application development
is that tools are useful
only if they can reuse
components and
third-party libraries and
make it easy to assemble
applications. This
article reviews how we
can build modular speech
applications usin... Apr. 18, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 8,243 Replies: 1 | Mac OS X & Java - A
perfect marriage By Hitesh Seth Mac OS X sports a new
look, not just on the
outside with its great
look and feel but also on
the inside. OS X is
proudly built on top of a
BSD Unix-based core
foundation. An exciting
aspect of the new
operating system is that
the latest version of the
Java 2 platf... Mar. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 15,247 Replies: 13 | Tools for Developing
VoiceXML Applications
Part 2 By Hitesh Seth Last year in this column
(XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 2)
we reviewed an initial
set of VoiceXML
development tools and
integrated development
environments (IDEs). Now
we'll review some of the
new tool sets developed
by independent software
vendors for the
development and ... Jan. 25, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 9,452 | JAX Pack! - Bridging The
Gap Between Java and XML
Technologies By Hitesh Seth Java and XML are
perfectly married. Java
represents a technology
evolution for
platform-independent
development and
deployment, and an
effective mechanism for
achieving distributed
computing. XML, a very
simple concept, has taken
the industry by storm and
is rev... Dec. 28, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 7,087 | Setting the
StandardsFormalizing How
Business Applications
Communicate By Hitesh Seth Referred to by some as
the fourth wave of
computing, Web services
intend to standardize the
way business applications
communicate with each
other, whether they are
within an enterprise or
communicating with
external partners,
customers, and suppliers.
In this arti... Dec. 3, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 11,242 | Voice Enabling Existing
Applications By Hitesh Seth VoiceXML and interactive
voice portals can enhance
self-service and
mobile-enable employees,
customers, and partners.
Voice portals provide
anytime/anywhere access
to vital information
through a simple, natural
interface such as
speech-enabled
conversations. Nov. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 7,768 | Developing VoiceXML
Applications Using
Microsoft.NET By Hitesh Seth In Part 1 of this article
(XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 6)
we introduced the key
components of the
Microsoft .NET Framework
- ASP.NET, C#, and Web
Services. In Part 2 we
apply the .NET
technologies to develop
an interactive VoiceXML
application. Toward the
end of the arti... Jul. 10, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 8,678 | Developing Voice XML
Applications Using
Microsoft.NET By Hitesh Seth In this fourth article in
the 'Spotlight on
VoiceXML' series we
return to our hands-on
approach for developing
VoiceXML applications. In
Part 1 we cover the basic
fundamentals of the new
Microsoft .NET Framework
and its components. In
Part 2 we'll apply .NET
techn... Jun. 3, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 7,647 | Grammars For VoiceXML
Applications By Hitesh Seth The previous article in
this series, 'Tools for
Developing VoiceXML
Applications' (Vol. 2,
issue 3), reviewed tools
that can aid the
development and testing
of VoiceXML applications.
Now we dive into the
mechanisms of writing the
grammars and review the
standards ... May. 22, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 9,612 | Tools For Developing
VoiceXML Apps By Hitesh Seth The previous article in
this series, 'Building
VoiceXML Applications
Using J2EE' (XML-J, Vol.
2, issue 2), discussed
building dynamic and
interactive voice
applications using
VoiceXML and J2EE. In
this issue we'll focus on
the tools available to
aid development an... Mar. 7, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 10,150 | Building VoiceXML
Applications Using J2EE By Hitesh Seth Welcome to VoiceXML. This
column focuses on
VoiceXML (Voice
eXtensible Markup
Language), an emerging
standard (defined by
VoiceXML Forum, submitted
to the W3C Voice Browser
Activity Group) for the
development of
interactive voice-based
applications. It's one of
... Feb. 4, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 9,045 Replies: 1 |
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