Oracle Web Services Manager

This easy-to-follow reference tutorial has detailed step-by-step examples of security use cases for Developers, Architects and others who want to learn to use Oracle Web Services Manager to address web services security. Web services provide a simple, standardized way to connect applications over the Internet, but require management of security and other runtime operations to work effectively. Oracle WSM is a software solution for managing web services operations and their interactions. Given basic knowledge of web services, this book will help you understand the need for security and how to address it with Oracle WSM. It explains the business reasons why web services need security, gives an architectural overview of WS Security for an enterprise, and details Oracle WSM and how to leverage it to address the key security issues Confidentiality, Integrity, Authentication and Authorization. It covers XML Encryption, W3C XML Signature Specification, and the Integrated WS Security Solution.