If you have ever used Google Calendar, Siri, Android Voice Command or other natural language tools, you might be familiar with convenient calendar features and voice calendar control. “Schedule a dinner party for six pm, next Thursday,” and The start time for your dinner party conveniently shows up, ready for your finishing touch. But how does this work? Can we use it for our own applications?

If you’ve given this a bit of thought, you’ve probably figured out that in order to understand grammar, the nearly infinite possible combinations of words, expressions, numbers, and dialects should require a not insignificant amount of computing power, and a good deal of creativity.

Hi Java web-developers. I hope you are already familiar with [[PrettyFaces]]. If not, I will give you a very short introduction taken from the project documentation:

PrettyFaces is:

“The open-source /url/#{rewriting} solution for Servlet, JSF, and Java EE, including features such as: page-load actions, seamless integration with faces navigation, dynamic view-id assignment, managed parameter parsing, and configuration-free compatibility with other web frameworks.”

[[Rewrite]], on the other hand, is a URL-rewriting framework built for extendability, for use with any web-framework or pure Servlet itself, and is used for the core of PrettyFaces “4.0” – bringing the best of both worlds… so that sounds very cool thus far, but what do we want to achieve with it? Why would we use either of these frameworks?