This preface describes the document accessibility features and conventions used in this guide—Developing Extensible Applications for Oracle Web Services Manager.
This manual is intended for software developers who are interested in creating custom assertions for web services.
This document describes the following:
Learn about predefined policies and assertions
For more information, see "Understanding Predefined Policies and Assertions" and "Understanding Custom Assertions".
Learn about parts and types of custom assertions
For more information, see "Understanding Policies, Assertions, Expressions, and Operators" and "Understanding the Types of Custom Assertions".
Review the rules and restrictions about categories and bindings
For more information, see"Overview of Supported Custom Assertion Categories" and "About the Rules for Binding Custom Assertions".
Review the lifecycle of a custom assertion
For more information, see"Understanding the Life Cycle of a Custom Assertion".
Understand the types of custom assertions
For more information, see"Understanding the Types of Custom Assertions".
Review the naming conventions for policies and assertions
For more information, see "Understanding the Naming Conventions for Policies and Assertions".
Create the custom assertions
For more information, see "Developing Custom Assertions for Web Service".
Test the custom assertion
For more information, see "Understanding How to Test the Web Service".
"Understanding the IP Address Validation Custom Assertion Sample"
"Understanding the Encryption and Decryption Custom Assertion Sample"
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 "Understanding How to Handle Exceptions in Custom Assertions".
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.
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