ColdFusion web services provide a powerful mechanism for publishing and consuming application functionality. However, before you produce web services for publication, you might want to consider the following best practices:

1. Minimize the use of ColdFusion complex types, such as query and struct, in the web services you create for publication. These types require consumers, especially those consuming the web service using a technology other than ColdFusion, to create special data structures to handle complex types.
2. Locally test the ColdFusion components implemented for web services before publishing them over the Internet.