In this SOA World Conference & Expo session, Frank Cohen will introduce the technologies that go into a SOA development stack, including composite applications, application servers, ESBs, Master Data Management, registry/epository, XML parsers, Workflow engines, databases, and protocols. Called the Base Computing Stack, Frank teaches about the stack and the scalability, performance, and developer productivity problems in this environment.

Speaker Bio: Frank Cohen is the leading authority for testing and optimizing software developed with service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web service designs. He is CEO and Founder of PushToTest and inventor of TestMaker, the open source SOA test automation tool, that helps software developers, QA technicians, and IT managers understand and optimize the scalability, performance, and reliability of their systems, and also the instructor of AJAXWorld University Bootcamp.

AJAXWorld University AJAX Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, one-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, Web designers, and other Web professionals how to build high-quality AJAX applications from beginning to end.

The next AJAXWorld University Bootcamp will take place on June 25, 2007 in New York City, at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan. 

Bootcamp instructor Frank Cohen is the leading authority for testing and optimizing software developed with SOA and AJAX designs and implementations. He is CEO and Founder of PushToTest and inventor of TestMaker, the open-source SOA test automation tool. He has authored several books on optimizing information systems, and is an experienced instructor in areas relating to SOA and AJAX.

Frank has led some of the software industry's most successful products, including Norton Utilities for the Macintosh, Stacker, and SoftWindows. He was also principal architect for the Sun Community Server. Frank is also a featured speaker at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007, and has been a guest of SYS-CON.TV.