Specifies a custom authentication provider binding for a parent webservice-endpoint or port-info element in one or both of these ways:
By binding to a specific provider
By specifying the message security requirements enforced by the provider
webservice-endpoint (sun-web.xml, sun-ejb-jar.xml, sun-application-client.xml), port-info (sun-web.xml, sun-sip.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 |
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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 |
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none |
Specifies the message layer at which authentication is performed. The value must be SOAP. |
|
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. |