Embodiments of the present invention provide for supporting definition of services in the SOA using templates for definition of processes, tasks, and/or components and wizards associated to the templates for guiding users in defining values to variables in the templates. Embodiments of the present invention provide developers with a guided flow for an integration project as well as guidance from the functional decomposition from the solution architect within an integrated development environment. Embodiments provide pre-built templates that may also contain wizard based interfaces to help the developers to create services that follow best-practices and include necessary plumbing tasks. Embodiments described herein provide the ability to create and save BPEL projects and scopes as templates to be reused in later projects and the application of these template features with wizard interfaces and a project overview/checklist model to provide developer guidance and assistance in creating the service that follows best-practices.