454 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
Do you have stringent non-functional requirements?
The basic mechanisms that underlie web services have been around for some time.
However, newly adopted standards, such as security and transaction workflows, are still in
flux with varying levels of maturity. Ensure that you use only industry-adopted standards.
This consideration might influence your decisions about candidate business functions for
web service enablement.
For information about the status of the different available web services standards, see the
following IBM developerWorks topic:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/standards/
What are you using web services for?
Web services provide interoper ...