Is JBehave a good choice for Web Service Automated Testing?

We have a requirement at my workplace to automate the webservice testing. We have been using QTP scripts to do so.

We as a team, Kind of leaning towards Jbehave as a choice. Is JBehave a good choice for web service functional testing automation?

We do use Soa开发者_开发知识库p UI to test manually. But we are planning to automate the functional and regression testing to reduce the release cycle time.

Suggestions welcome.

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It may not be possible easy to implement load (performance) tests. Can't see any reason why writing functional and regression tests would be a problem.