Oracle Retail Integration Bus uses Web services for its integrations with Oracle Retail Management System. This appendix discusses security for the Web services.
The OASIS WS-Security specification is the open standard for Web services security. Its goal is to enable applications to secure SOAP message exchanges by providing encryption, integrity, and authentication support. WS-Security offers a general-purpose mechanism for associating security tokens with message content. The specification defines these approved token types:
Username Token Profile
X.509 Certificate Token Profile
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Token Profile