braindump of common requests/thoughts

These are some items that people have approached us on.

SOA principles

Should we be publishing SOA principles that services need to abide by?

versioning

instrumentation

service design

service granularity

request/response messages

commons fields

patterns

measurement

service metering

monitoring

Should there always be a heartbeat page for a service?

best practices for publishing SLAs

security

evaluate existing web service for reuse?

error and exception handling

by client

by service

testing

BE/BW failover

service management

organizational structure

processes

load balancing

tools

development tools

logging tools

uddi

testing tools

performance

functional testing

composition of services

i.e. building a web service that is composed of one or more existing web service(s).