Custom Design your own Apps with the Unified Application Environment

Oh mercy do I love writing code! There is nothing more fun then to modify or write my own stuff from scratch.



I started seeing the value in writing my own stuff at an early age...

With network management it is really critical to be able to write your own stuff to monitor what is important to your business needs and not some goober developer that is just guessing what is important in a cookie cutter fashion.

With Unified Communications it is even more critical since folks all communicate in very different methods. I have played around with some voice code in the past, but wholly smokes, with all the calls and nested subroutines I got lost fast and went back to writing switch and router code!

The CUAE appliance is really a cool idea. It has any coders dream: predefined modular code and a beautiful wide open scratch pad to actually visually see my code flow. Now, understand that a CUAE demo is not as simple as telling a engineer to write an application and deploy it. You can write scripts like that of course, but not applications.


So I chose a cool application that I could deploy fast like a WSDL file. Robb and I both believe (Unified TechWiseTV Opinion (tm) ) that the web really offers the next step in providing services to a telephony solution in real time. I have wrote WSDL apps with stock tickers so folks could be up to date to the second for stock and futures trading. The Weather WSDL was simple and easy to write with the Cisco Unified Applications Designer. This is a groovy little front end for CUAE that works well offline. You can practice your skills with the Cisco Unified Applications Designer and write code all day long. It just takes the CUAE to deploy it.

I do strongly recommend checking out the Yahoo user group websites.

SourceForge.net has some great code samples to work with.


Now one of the problems I had with CUAD when installing the package on my machine was I kept getting a WSDL path error when I went to compile the code. The fix is, when you install the Microsoft .Net Framework SDK (I used 1.1), copy paste the WSDL.exe file into the directory you installed CUAD. For example, mine is: C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\Unified Application Designer\Designer and that will fix that issue.

Now, go forth, and design thine own applications and never except default apps as the only answer!!