At the intersection of XML and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) are significant scalability and performance problems that are solved by using the FastSOA patterns using native XML technology. As organizations move to SOA their use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) explodes. Responding to mandates and standardization around XML and SOA means your applications need to handle SOAP, RSS, REST, AJAX, Industry-adopted XML Schemas, binary attachments, and custom forms. Unfortunately, existing development tools deliver poor performance and scalability in the resulting services and applications. For instance, as XML message sizes and complexity grows Web Services built with today's commercial and open-source application servers deliver only 1.5 to 2.0 transactions per second (TPS.) A new approach is needed. FastSOA is new SOA software architecture for your existing datacenter that does not rebuild or replace your legacy systems. FastSOA leverages the power of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Query (XQuery) standard and native XML database technology to deliver SOA performance and scalability. In FastSOA you will learn how to apply native XML technology for: • Data mediation using mid-tier data and service caching to handle the explosion of new schemas and new devices • Data aggregation in the SOA mid-tier for off-line browsing, service acceleration through mid-tier caching and transformation, and bandwidth-needs reduction • Increased service and application scalability and performance • Enterprise Service Bus acceleration through XML persistence • Improved service discovery flexibility through XML persistence in SOA registries and repositories • Faster development using the XML data model in services using Business Integration and ESB technologies. FastSOA teaches software architects, developers and IT managers the way to quantify SOA performance in your own environment. You will learn Frank Cohen's PushToTest test methodology, immediately useful frameworks, tools, and techniques to understanding the scalability and performance of your own SOA designs in your own environment. * FastSOA provides software architects and developers with a methodology, immediately useful frameworks, and detailed use-cases to deliver scalable and well performing SOA for everyday information technology problems.