This document provides an overview of the Web Services Security Service Module and the related standards and features it supports.
Documentation Audience
This document is intended for the following audiences:
Web Services Developers—Developers who are programmers who focus on developing Web services applications and who work with other engineering, quality assurance (QA), and database teams to implement security features. Web services developers have in-depth working knowledge of Web Services programming.
Application Developers—Developers who focus on designing applications and work with other engineers, quality assurance (QA) technicians, and database teams to implement applications.
Security Administrators—Administrators who are responsible for installing and configuring OES products and designing policy. Security administrators work with other administrators to implement and maintain security configurations, authentication and authorization schemes, and to set up and maintain access to deployed application resources.
Prerequisites for this Document
Prior to reading this guide, you should read the Introduction to Oracle Entitlements Server. This document describes how the product works and provides conceptual information that is helpful to understanding the necessary installation components.
Optimizing Web Services Performance with Caches, describes how to use the Web Services Client Authorization Cache to allow an application using the Web Services SSM to take advantage of in-process caching to achieve performance improvements when making authorization calls.
Using Failover with a Web Services Client, describes how to develop a Web Services client that uses failover to connect to alternate Web Services SSM if the primary SSM is unreachable.
Developing Security Providers —This document provides security vendors and security and application developers with the information needed to develop custom security providers.
Programming Security for Java Applications—The document describes how to implement security in Java applications. It include descriptions of the Security Service Application Programming Interfaces and programming instructions for implementing security in Java applications.
Javadocs for Java API—This document provides reference documentation for the Java Application Programming Interfaces.
