Automatically starting applications in a node

When you install the WebSphere Voice Response Java and VoiceXML Environment, the configuration database contains an entry for the sample application, “menu”. When you call the number associated with menu, you should find that the menu application is waiting for your call. How does this happen? An instance of menu is automatically started with the node.

To start an application in this way, you need to define an application node with an application group, and specify the name of the group in the NodeName entry for the application node. You also need to define a voice response Node, and reference it in the NodeDefVRNode setting of the application node's NodeName entry.

Here's an example in which four instances of menu are automatically started, making the node capable of handling four calls for menu simultaneously.

The GroupName entry of the application node looks like this:

GroupName=group1

  Application=menu

  Application=menu

  Application=menu

  Application=menu

;

The NodeName entry of the application node looks like
this:

NodeName=AppNode1

  NodeDefLocale=en_US

  VRNode=no

  NodeDefHost=LocalHost


  NodeDefVRNode=VRNode1

  Group=group1

;

And the NodeName entry of the voice response node
now looks like this:

NodeName=VRNode1

  NodeDefLocale=en_US

  VRNode=yes


  NumToApp=123456,menu

  NumToApp=123455,app1

;