This paper introduces the Web Services concepts, differentiates between simple, compound and complex Web Services, and defines a scenario to understand its implications in enterprise-scale deployments on intra and inter enterprise collaboration, security, manageability and other qualities of service.

It discusses IONA Orbix (r) E2A (tm) Collaborate edition, a best-in-class distributed integration platform, unifying EAI, B2Bi and Web Service integration functionality, that is differentiated by service-oriented componentization, comprehensive standards support, deployment flexibility and enterprise class qualities of service.