1. Securing Web Services and Managing Policies with Oracle Web Services Manager
  2. Preface

Preface

This section describes the intended audience, how to use this guide, and provides information about documentation accessibility.

Audience

This guide is intended for:

  • System and security administrators who administer web services and manage security

  • Application developers who are developing web services and testing the security prior to deployment of the web services

  • Security architects who create security policies

How to Use This Guide

It is recommended that you see Understanding Web Servicesto gain a better understanding of the two web service stacks supported in Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c.

The document is organized as follows:

  • Introduction to Oracle Web Services introduces you to the concepts and tasks required to secure and administer web services. It provides a brief introduction to web service policies and helps you to decide which security policies are best for your web services. It also describes how to install and configure Oracle Web Services Manager on WebLogic Server.

  • Attaching and Managing Policies describes how to work with policies and policy sets using Fusion Middleware Control and with WLST. Topics such as viewing, attaching, detaching, editing and overriding policies and policy sets are included.

  • Securing Web Services describes how to configure your web service for message protection, SSL, authentication, and authorization. SAML and WS-Trust use cases are included as examples. You can also integrate hardware with Oracle Web Services Manager.

  • Managing and Troubleshooting Oracle Web Services Manager describes how to diagnose problems and tune the performance of Oracle Web Services Manager. It also describes how to work with the Oracle Web Services Manager Repository.

  • Oracle Web Services Manager Predefined Policies and Assertions Templates provides reference information describing the predefined policy and assertion templates provided with OWSM.

  • Security and Policy Reference for Oracle Web Services provides reference information that describes web service security and policy annotations; assertion and policy set schemas; and the OWSM plug-in for Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following Oracle Web Services Manager documents:

See also the Oracle Web Services Manager Technology page at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/webservices_manager/index.html.

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