distributed computing components business? assembling business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet? serve new types of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and increase to accommodate new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate with other enterprise systems. In this book, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel provides a methodological framework that offers pragmatic techniques for aligning component-based business processes and legacy systems. Van den Heuvel methodology is based on three building blocks: reverse engineering, which allows legacy systems to be componentized; front technique, derived a set of business components from requirements of new business processes, and aligning new business processes and componentized legacy systems.