Frank Cohen

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 script that I came up with. Feel free to comment and offer changes and improvements. I am also thinking that this script will become part of the tutorial documents that come with TestMaker 5. Welcome To The PushToTest TestMaker Version 5 Screencast. I am Frank Cohen, the founder and CEO of PushToTest. PushToTest TestMaker is a platform for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web service, and Web application governance and test automation. PushToTest TestMaker 5 delivers ease-of-use improvements... (more)

SOA Divorced From Web Services?

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 way to go to serve enterprises and organizations needing to well manage their efforts through information systems.... (more)

Solve Performance Problems with FastSOA Patterns

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 data transformation, aggregation, and federation. Three Use Cases and the FastSOA Pattern FastSOA is an appropri... (more)

AJAXWorld University AJAX Developer Bootcamp at SOA World

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 automation. The session will include a demonstration of the new PushToTest TestMaker Version 5 -Frank Category(s) ... (more)

Sun Blew its "iPhone" Java Opportunity to AJAX

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 to learn which MacBook Pro model I'll be upgrading to in the next few weeks. iPhone is beautiful. It is smaller... (more)