‎"‎Frank Cohen is both a keen observer and a key participant as the software industry struggles to understand what the words ‎'‎Enterprise SOA‎'‎ really mean‎.‎ FastSOA is an excellent guide to the current technologies ‎(‎and how to route around their pitfalls and shortcomings‎)‎‎.‎‎"‎ ‎-‎-William Grosso‎,‎ Software Development Forum‎,‎ Board Member‎;‎ Author of Java Enterprise Best Practices and Java RMI ‎"‎If it is possible for a technical book to present an intimate side to one engineer‎'‎s experiences getting SOA applications to deliver good performance‎,‎ then this book is it‎.‎‎"‎ ‎-‎-Ilya Sterin‎,‎ Software Engineer at Nextrials‎,‎ Author of XML and Perl ‎"‎FastSOA is a great book with lots of meat on the bones and practical real‎-world XML and SOA knowledge‎.‎ Much of what passes for SOA right now is simply block diagrams and vague exhortations to get the architecture right‎.‎ Frank Cohen gives a practical guide to what software developers‎,‎ architects‎,‎ and CIOs have to do to deliver highly scalable‎,‎ well performing‎,‎ and‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎