A simple response with only buzzwords.
Webervices is useful to enable B2B, B2C, and A2A.
Actually, this is all about EAI.
HTH,
[ January 16, 2004: Message edited by: Jean-Louis Marechaux ]
/ JeanLouis<br /><i>"software development has been, is, and will remain fundamentally hard" (Grady Booch)</i><br /> <br />Take a look at <a href="http://www.epfwiki.net/wikis/openup/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Agile OpenUP</a> in the Eclipse community