Apache OFBiz Development: The Beginner's Tutorial is a new book from Packt that will help developers install and configure OFBiz to optimize system performance. Written by two leading OFBiz consultants Rupert Howell and Jonathon Wong, this book teaches developers to use services, entities, and widgets to build custom ERP and CRM systems.

SOA Governance is a new book from Packt that teaches users to improve a company's efficiency and productivity using service-oriented architecture governance. Written by SOA Consortium member, Todd Biske, this book acts as a detailed guide to choose the right people, processes, and policies to achieve successful SOA Governance within a company.

Business Process Execution Language for Web Services- The XML-Based Language for the Formal Specification of Business Processes, business integration protocols and SOA based integration.

This quite long subtitle is on the cover of the 156pages book by Tony Willis - Emereo Pty Ltd (Juli 2008).

Active Endpoints and JBoss are presenting a webinar entitled Standards-based Middleware: a Platform for SOA Success on Thursday, September 25 at 2pm ET, 11am PT, 18:00 GMT.

An agenda and registration form are at http://www.info.redhat.com/forms/20080925JBossSOA

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL is a new book from Packt that teaches users to transform BPMN to BPEL and execute business processes on the SOA platform. This book will explain advanced business process modeling and management with BPMN and BPEL and how it is related to SOA.