message-security-binding (Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Application Deployment Guide)

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Application Deployment Guide

message-security-binding

Specifies a custom authentication provider binding for a parent webservice-endpoint or port-info element in one or both of these ways:

webservice-endpoint, port-info (sun-web.xml, sun-ejb-jar.xml, sun-application-client.xml)

The following table describes subelements for the message-security-binding element.

Table A–74 message-security-binding Subelements


Element	Required	Description
message-security	zero or more	Specifies message security requirements.

The following table describes attributes for the message-security-binding element.

Table A–75 message-security-binding Attributes


Attribute	Default	Description
`auth-layer`	none	Specifies the message layer at which authentication is performed. The value must be `SOAP`.
`provider-id`	none	(optional) Specifies the authentication provider used to satisfy application-specific message security requirements. If this attribute is not specified, a default provider is used, if it is defined for the message layer. if no default provider is defined, authentication requirements defined in the `message-security-binding` are not enforced.