The first two parts of my three part series about using Apache's Derby database and WS-Resources is available on IBM's DeveloperWorks website:

Apache Derby resources from the Web services perspective, Part 1: Derby data as WS-Resources - As the world moves in the direction of service-oriented architecture (SOA), it becomes crucial that all of your resources are SOA friendly. That may mean they produce services, that they consume services, or that they are services. This three-part ...

Apache Derby resources from the Web services perspective, Part 2: Producing and consuming WS-Notifications with Derby - Continue on your mission to make your resources service-oriented architecture (SOA)-friendly. Part 1 of this three-part tutorial series showed you how to use WS-Resources to refer to Apache Derby data and structures from within the inherently stateless ...