We are pleased to announce that version 7.3 of the <alt> XML Studio is now shipping. Featuring the industry's first commercial Comet developer tools, the XML Studio breaks new ground in the development and testing of Web 2.0 applications.

Developers can now build and test real-time streaming mash-up applications. Version 7.3 embeds a copy of the upcoming <alt> Dynamic Mashup Server  which uses a custom version of Grizzly, the Comet technology from Sun.

In addition to its Web 2.0 server support, version 7.3 of the XML Studio adds mash-up developer support for 3 new Web 2.0 client technologies: Mozilla Prism (the single-site browser (SSB) technology from Mozilla Labs), Sun's Lively Kernel (a JavaScript/SVG web programming environment from Sun Labs), and Microsoft's WebSlices (a new feature of Internet Explorer 8). 

Previous versions of the XML Studio introduced mash-up developer tools for Opera Widgets, Apple Dashboard Widgets, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Vista Sidebar Gadgets, RSS mash-up feeds, Yahoo! Pipes, Google Gadgets, JavaFX Script, and Safari on iPhone.

Version 7.3 of the XML Studio also adds new capabilities to its Web 3.0 semantic web developer tools. Now, our RDF mash-up meta data includes support for SSML-- the W3C standard for speech synthesis. By explicitly including text-to-speech technology in our mash-up RDF definitions, we hope that both the visually impaired and non-English speaking users will become full participants in the mash-up revolution.

The <alt> XML Studio is available for Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, Ubuntu, and Solaris.

To download a copy of the <alt> XML Studio, visit http://altmobile.com/Home.html