Preface

This preface describes the document accessibility features and conventions used in this guide.

Intended Audience

This manual is intended for software developers who are interested in creating custom assertions for web services.

How to Use This Guide

This document describes the following:

About Policies and Assertions

• Learn about predefined policies and assertions

  For more information, see About Predefined Policies and Assertions and Understanding Custom Assertions.

• Learn about parts and types of custom assertions

  For more information, see About Policy Combinations and Understanding the Types of Custom Assertions.

• Review the rules and restrictions about categories and bindings

  For more information, see Supported Custom Assertion Categories and About the Rules for Binding Custom Assertions.

• Review the lifecycle of a custom assertion

  For more information, see About the Life Cycle of a Custom Assertion.

• Understand the types of custom assertions

  For more information, see Understanding the Types of Custom Assertions.

Creation of Custom Assertions

• Review the naming conventions for policies and assertions

  For more information, see About Policy Name.

• Create the custom assertions

  For more information, see Developing Custom Assertions for Web Service.

• Test the custom assertion

  For more information, see Testing the Web Service.

Code Examples

• Validating IP Address in Custom Assertion

• Encrypting and Decrypting Data in Custom Assertion

• Authenticating a User in Custom Assertion

Advanced Topics

• Implement advanced features:

  • input parameters to the assertion

  • access OWSM context properties

  • access request, response, and fault message objects

  • access specific parts of a message based on XPath

  • access certificate used by container for SSL

  • access transport properties such as HTTP requests and responses

  • access CSF keys

  For more information, see Implementing Advanced Features in Custom Assertions.

• Handling exceptions

  For more information, see Handling Exceptions in Custom Assertions.

References

• XML schema for creating custom assertions

  For more information, see Custom Assertions Schema Reference.

• Java API reference for OWSM

  For more information, see Java API Reference for Oracle Web Services Manager.

Documentation Accessibility

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following manuals:

• "Web Services" in Release Notes for Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure

• Administering Web Services

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Library

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.