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.

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.