SOAP Binding Service Overview

The Liberty Identity Web Services Framework (Liberty ID-WSF) and Liberty Identity Service Interface Specifications (Liberty ID-SIS) components of the Liberty Alliance Project specifications use messages to convey identity data between providers. Access Manager has implemented the Liberty ID-WSF SOAP Binding Specification (Liberty ID-WSF-SBS) as the method of transport for this purpose. The specification defines SOAP as the binding to the Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP), which is itself layered onto the TCP/IP stack.

For more information, see the Liberty ID-WSF SOAP Binding Specification.

XML Service File

The Access Manager SOAP Binding Service is defined using the XML service file amSOAPBinding.xml. This file defines the attributes for the SOAP Binding Service which can be managed through the Access Manager Console or the XML file.

For more information on service files, see the Sun Java System Access Manager 7 2005Q4 Administration Guide.

The Liberty ID-WSF-SBS also defines an XML schema for use in building the SOAP messages. This XML Schema Definition (XSD) file is on the Liberty Alliance Project web site. Version 1.0 is also reproduced in Appendix B, Service Schema Files.

SOAP Binding Service APIs

The Access Manager SOAP Binding Service includes a Java package named com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.soapbinding. For more information about these interfaces, see SOAP Binding Service Package.