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.

The following sections contain additional information about the SOAP Binding Service.

• XML Service File

• SOAPReceiver Servlet

• SOAP Binding Service APIs

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 7.1 Administration Guide.

The Liberty ID-WSF-SBS also defines an XML schema for use in building the SOAP messages. More information about the XSD schemas can be found in Schema Files and Service Definition Documents.

SOAPReceiver Servlet

The SOAPReceiver servlet receives a Message object from a web service client (WSC), verifies the signature, and constructs its own Message object for processing by Access Manager. The SOAPReceiver then invokes the correct request handler class to pass this second Message object on to the appropriate Access Manager service for a response. When the response is generated, the SOAPReceiver returns this Message object back to the WSC. More information can be found in the SOAP Binding Process.

SOAP Binding Service APIs

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