Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML

Virtually every enterprise application exposed through a Web service has a need for security at some level. An enterprise's data is an important asset to...

Enterprise environments with Web site applications have a variety of security use case scenarios. Although the spread of Web services has given rise to additional...

The J2EE platform container provides a set of security-related system services to its applications and clients. These built-in container services simplify application development because they...

Developers that rely on JAX-RPC to exchange messages between Web service endpoints and clients leverage the security services provided by the J2EE platform. The J2EE...

Message-level security, or securing Web services at the message level, addresses the same security requirements—identity, authentication, authorization, integrity, confidentiality, non-repudiation, and basic message exchange—as traditional...

This chapter explained the J2EE platform security model as it applies to Web service endpoints and showed how to use the platform security model in...