An application server, configured for executing a messaging application
defined by XML documents, is able to provide messaging services to a
calling party for a remote subscriber based on retrieval of subscriber
attribute information obtained from a remote information database server
(such as LDAP) via an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The application
server, upon receiving a voice application operation request having
subscriber identifier information from a browser serving the calling
party, obtains from the remote information database server attribute
information for responding to the voice application operation request
based on the subscriber identifier information. The application server
generates an HTML document having media content and control tags for
personalized execution of the voice application operation based on the
attribute information obtained from the standardized database server. The
application server also is configured for sending and retrieving messages
from a standardized remote messaging server via the IP network.