Ten practical real-world case studies combining business process management and real-world web services orchestration BPEL recipes for the integration of SOA and composite application development management combines business processes and web services orchestration techniques and best practices with the sample code downloaded from ten real-world case studies In Detail Service oriented architecture is to generate buzz around the IT industry. Driven by standards-based technologies like XML, Web Services, and SOAP, SOA with the rapid move from pilot projects to mainstream applications critical to business operations. One of the key standards to accelerate adoption of SOA Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL). In the last two years, BPEL has become the most significant standard to increase the visibility of SOA from IT to business level. BPEL enables organizations to automate their business processes by orchestrating services within and across firewalls. Service, or should be, everywhere! What you will learn from this book? In Packt book Business Process Execution Language for Web Services by Matjaz Juric, we learn about building blocks and how this technology can be used to build a simple SOA solution. As organizations increase their footprint SOA, IT Managers, Architects, and developers are starting to realize that the impact of SOA on IT and business operations can be very large. Once you have been exposed to different materials (BPEL, WSDL, and web services), this book is to take adventure to the next level by helping you to cook a new recipe (SOA application) using an efficient kitchen techniques (best practices). 10 SOA practitioners have gathered to share their SOA best practices and provide practical viewpoint to solve many common problems SOA promises to solve. Who is this book written for? This book is intended for architects and developers build applications in a Service Oriented Architecture. This book assumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier architecture.