Beehive is a new Apache project that simplifies Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Web services programming. This article shows how to get started with Beehive and offers a sneak preview of Pollinate, an Eclipse plug-in that creates Beehive applications.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-beehive/

Learn what the basic elements of a Web service are and how you can use IBM Rational Application Developer to build, consume, deploy, and test Web services.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/i-dw-r-consumews-i.html