A system and method for facilitating configuring service references to be called by a software application. An example method includes providing a catalog of processes, wherein the catalog of processes includes information identifying one or more services to be called to implement one or more processes; determining one or more service references occurring in a business process template that are used to implement one or more processes identified in the catalog of business processes; interchanging the one or more service references with one or more tokens in the process template, resulting in a tokenized template in response thereto; and running one or more processes in accordance with the tokenized template. In a more specific embodiment, the example method further includes employing a build system implemented via middleware to tokenize the process template to yield the tokenized template in response thereto.