Front Cover -- FastSOA -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Where SOA Meets The Real World -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Problem with Service-Oriented Architecture -- 1.1 What Drives a Business to SOA? -- 1.2 SOA Benefits in an Enterprise -- 1.3 SOA Service Mediation -- 1.4 Can I Build SOA with My Existing Tools? -- 1.5 Data in the Service-Oriented Architecture -- 1.6 The Dark Side of SOA -- 1.7 The SOA Checklist -- 1.8 Summary -- Chapter 2. Managing the XML Explosion -- 2.1 A Love Affair with XML -- 2.2 XML Impact on Data -- 2.3 XML and the Nature of Software Developers -- 2.4 Why XML in SOA Makes Sense -- 2.5 What XML Is Not: A Language for Semantics -- 2.6 XML Benefits in a Service World -- 2.7 Summary -- Chapter 3. Understanding SOA Patterns -- 3.1 SOA Players -- 3.2 Summary -- Chapter 4. Identifying And Avoiding SOA Performance Problems -- 4.1 Patterns and Experiences That Led to FastSOA -- 4.2 Mitigate Performance Problems with the FastSOA Architecture -- 4.3 Summary -- Chapter 5. Solve Performance Problems with FastSOA Patterns -- 5.1 Three Use Cases and the FastSOA Pattern -- 5.2 Scenario 1: Accelerating Service Interface Performance and Scalability -- 5.3 Scenario 2: Improving SOA Performance to Access Services -- 5.4 Scenario 3: Flexibility Needed for Semantic Web, Service Orchestration, and Services Dynamically Calling Other Services -- 5.5 Summary -- Chapter 6. The PushToTest Method to Identify SOA Scalability and Performance Metrics -- 6.1 The Method to Identify SOA Performance Metrics -- 6.2 Applying the Method to SOA and Web Services -- 6.3 Understanding TPS -- 6.4 Summary -- Chapter 7. Learning XML-Centric Technology for SOA -- 7.1 XML-Centric Options -- 7.2 XQuery in the SOA Stack: The Cookie Factory -- 7.3 The Data Used in the Cookie Factory Example -- 7.4 A Tour of XQuery -- 7.5 My First XQuery Blunders.

7.6 The Unfinished Parts of XQuery -- 7.7 Where to Find Answers to XQuery Questions -- 7.8 Summary -- Chapter 8. Getting SOA-Ready -- 8.1 Composite Data Services -- 8.2 Creating Business Value with Metadata -- 8.3 Enterprise Options to Build Business Logic -- 8.4 LazySOA and Being Ready for SOA -- 8.5 How to Evaluate SOA Tools -- Glossary -- Resources -- Index -- Colophon.

Without the right controls to govern SOA development, the right set of tools to build SOA, and the right support of exciting new protocols and patterns, your SOA efforts can result in software that delivers only 1.5 transactions per second (TPS) on expensive modern servers. This is a disaster enterprises, organizations, or institutions avoid by using Frank Cohen's FastSOA patterns, test methodology, and architecture. In FastSOA you will learn how to apply native XML technology to SOA for: * Data mediation using mid-tier data and service caching to handle the explosion of new schemas and new devices in an ever changing environment * Data aggregation in the SOA middle-tier for off-line browsing, service acceleration through mid-tier caching and transformation, and bandwidth-needs reduction * Increased service and application scalability and performance * Successful evaluations of application server, XML parser, relational and native XML database, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Integration server, workflow server, and Web Service tools for performance, scalability, and developer productivity * Improved service governance through XML persistence in SOA registries and repositories * Composite data services (CDS) to provide maximum reuse of software components and data, accelerate performance, and reduce development time and maintenance in your SOA About the author Frank Cohen is the "go to" guy when enterprises need to build, test, and solve performance and scalability problems in complex interoperating information systems. Frank's articles appear on IBM developerWorks, and he is author of Java Testing and Design: From Unit Tests to Automated Web Tests. He is the principal maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source test utility and framework, and Director of Solutions Engineering at Raining Data, publisher of the TigerLogic XQuery engine and

native XML database. About the Author: Frank Cohen is the "go to" guy when enterprises need to build, test, and solve performance and scalability problems in complex interoperating information systems. Frank's articles appear on IBM developerWorks, and he is author of Java Testing and Design: From Unit Tests to Automated Web Tests. He is the principal maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source test utility and framework, and Director of Solutions Engineering at Raining Data, publisher of the TigerLogic XQuery engine and native XML database. In FastSOA you will learn how to apply native XML technology to SOA for: * Data mediation using mid-tier data and service caching to handle the explosion of new schemas and new devices in an ever changing environment * Data aggregation in the SOA middle-tier for off-line browsing, service acceleration through mid-tier caching and transformation, and bandwidth-needs reduction * Increased service and application scalability and performance * Successful evaluations of application server, XML parser, relational and native XML database, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Integration server, workflow server, and Web Service tools for performance, scalability, and developer productivity * Improved service governance through XML persistence in SOA registries and repositories * Composite data services (CDS) to provide maximum reuse of software components and data, accelerate performance, and reduce development time and maintenance in your SOA.

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