Quality of Manageability of Web Services

Web Services has become a predominant paradigm in delivering services to users. A number of standards and solutions have paved the way to reliable and secure way of Web Services execution. One area that still has not sufficiently matured is management of Web Services. There are currently a couple of standards that are being defined, such as Web Services Distributed Management and Web Services Management. However, this is a complex problem, encompassing dependencies on the underlying resources, dealing with distributed services, their availability, scalability, security, etc. Of particular concern is the automation of management and cost of management.