Frank Cohen

This morning I am glad to introduce you to a new set of resources to help surface scalability and performance issues in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA.) The SOA Knowledge and Performance Kit is a free open-source resource to show you what it really takes to build services usi... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog Rod Johnson of Spring fame has posted The Power of Adoption: Why No Company is Big Enough to Deny Developers What They Want to talk about two big software company acquisitions that were announced today. Oracle announced it is buying BEA. And Sun announced it bo... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog PushToTest is setting up a new test lab to check builds of TestMaker. We bought Toshiba Satellite (A216) laptops for the lab. We tried installing Windows XP over the pre-installed Windows Vista. Toshiba does not provide XP device drivers for the laptop and they... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog Java developers have been waiting on a stable release of the Java Runtime Environment 6 for more than a year. Apple shipped Mac OS X 10.5 (codename Leopard) last Friday. The new operating system includes the Sun-developed DTrace debugger and an upgraded JRE 1.5... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog The expert group working on an enhancement to Java that will make dynamic scripting languages easier to code and more efficient to run met this week. The JSR 292 group has been quietly considering designs for a new Java byte code instruction called "invokedynam... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog This morning I received a message from TechTarget telling me that SearchWebServices.com is renaming itself to SearchSOA.com. According to TechTarget the move is in line with a shift of attitudes and efforts within the application development community. As I've... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog Today is US Independence day and I stopped at the Apple store to see the iPhone, and ask questions about the new MacBook Pro. I wanted to see the iPhone in person to learn what I should expect from mobile phone people interaction and feature sets. And I wanted ... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog Anil Gupta is planning to write a book on SOA test methodology. He recently asked for feedback on the subject areas and he asked for pointers to blogs and resources that discuss SOA testing. Here I what I wrote in response to his question: Dear Anil: I'm glad t... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog PushToTest TestMaker provides three ways to create a unit test that may be then run as a functional test, load and scalability test, and service monitor: Use TestGen4Web to record a Web application Use the Network Proxy Recorder to watch a browser interact wit... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I t... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog The W3C has moved the Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) to recommendation status which makes it a new standard. I'm feeling really stupid about now. I'm trying to think of an occasion where I would use SWSL and SWSO? They both seem like smal... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog Jython 2.2 is the first major overhaul of the Jython dynamic scripting language in 4 years. Jython 2.2 implements the internal architecture of Python 2.2 and includes numerous features from Python 2.3. Jython is a Java implementation of the Python language. It a... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog My blog entry elicited a response from Jason at ZapThink. He asked – more or less - what he doesn't get? I also received a request to help parse part of the blog. My blog shows that I'm bothered by two things: using the word Divorce when talking about SO... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog A blog by Jason English at iTKO has me bothered. Jason praises an analyst report from ZapThink's Jason Bloomberg titled Divorcing SOA from Web Services. Neither iTKO nor ZapThink seem to get the vision behind SOA and Web services. The IT industry has a long wa... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog I will be teaching a one day course on AJAX at the SOA World Conference in New York on June 27, 2007. Details are at http://ajaxbootcamp.sys-con.com/. Click here to register I will also be leading a session on XML and SOA performance optimization using test auto... (more)

Frank Cohen's Blog We fixed the last of the beta-blockers and TestMaker 5 will be released on Monday. We are now working on release notes and tutorials. I am planning to record a screencast to show TestMaker 4 users the changes and improvements in TestMaker 5. Below is the draft ... (more)

Here we're going to show a FastSOA mid-tier service and data caching architecture applied in three real-world scenarios. The scenarios show how to accelerate SOA performance and mitigate performance problems through mid-tier service caching, native XML persistence, and mid-tier d... (more)

Software developers live in a time that offers the greatest choice of software development tools, application servers, and connectivity ever. Each choice you make affects the scalability and reliability of your finished application, especially if you're building Web services. For... (more)