Fast SOA: The way to use native XML technology to achieve Service Oriented Architecture governance, scalability, and performance (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

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 that enterprises, organizations, and institutions avoid by using Frank Cohen's FastSOA patterns, test methodology, and architecture.
As organizations move to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) their use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) explodes. Responding to mandates and industry standardization around XML and SOA means that applications need to handle a wide variety of applications. Unfortunately, existing Java development tools deliver poor performance and scalability to build SOA. As an example, Web Services built with today's commercial and open-source application servers are quite slow and rarely scale well. A new approach is needed!
FastSOA is new SOA software architecture that does not require the rebuilding or replacement of existing systems. FastSOA leverages the power of the XQuery standard and native XML databases to deliver SOA performance and scalability.