Oracle Fusion Middleware supports the categories and types of web services described in "Overview of Web Services in Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c" in Understanding Web Services.
At development time, application developers can secure web services by attaching policies using Oracle JDeveloper or programmatically using annotations. Post-deployment, system administrators can secure web services by attaching policies to the service endpoints or globally by reference to a range of endpoints. For details about securing the web services and managing web services policies, see Securing Web Services and Managing Policies with Oracle Web Services Manager.
In addition to securing the web services, system administrators may need to:
Deploy, configure, test, and monitor web services.
Enable, publish, and register web services.
Manage policy lifecycle to transition from a test to production environment.
Test interoperability with other web services.