Abstract: A unified web-based voice messaging system provides voice application control between a web browser and an application server via an hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) connection on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The application server, configured for executing a voice application defined by XML documents, also is configured for describing the voice application by collecting, for each of the XML documents, attributes describing execution of the XML documents in an application runtime environment, and generating for storage on a tangible medium an output file that describes the voice application based on at least a portion of the collected attributes selected by a user. Hence, the voice applications defined by XML documents can be considered as self-documenting, and the act of writing the applications using XML documents generates the necessary information for creating and formatting documentation in accordance with the attributes (i.e., context) provided by the application runtime environment.

Abstract: An application server includes an application runtime environment configured for receiving a first HTTP request having a session identifier that specifies a server-side data record configured for storing an application state for a voice application session of a first party. The application runtime environment is configured to modify the session identifier to change the application state of the voice application session of the first party based on a second HTTP request having an input posted by a second party. The application runtime environment is also configured to update a brownie of the first party to include the modified session identifier.