The reader should be familiar with web service concepts and their underlying technologies (for instance see Glossary), modeling (as described in the Cúram Modeling Reference Guide), and developing in an IBM Cúram Social Program Management environment (as described in the Cúram Server Developer's Guide).
IBM Cúram Social Program Management web services are based on Apache Axis2. The following is a starting point if you require more information: http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/index.html. This site contains a wealth of information including references to underlying technologies such as SOAP and WSDL (see Glossary) as well as Axis2 documentation and links to outside articles, etc.