The integration of third-party web services can solve complex business problems and reduce risks, costs and time-to-market. However, the task of the integrators is challenged by services that are maintained by different organizations, and may evolve dynamically and autonomously. The impossibility of statically determining which service implementation is bound at runtime may lead to unexpected failures [2].
Citation:
Giovanni Denaro, Mauro Pezze, Davide Tosi, "Designing Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Applications," icac, pp.16, Fourth International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'07), 2007