Web services policies
Using Web services policies, you can define the qualities of service for your Web services and clients.
The product provides several types of Web services policy:
- WS-Addressing: Based on the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) WS-Addressing specifications for Web services. This family of specifications provide transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web services and to facilitate end-to-end addressing. This specification provides asynchronous support.
- WS-Security: Based on the WS-Secure Conversation (WS-SC) and WS-Security specifications, as well as the associated token profiles. The WS-Security specification and its associated token profiles define a way to send security tokens and provide message integrity and confidentiality. The WS-Secure Conversation specification establishes a secure context, on the basis of shared keys, for the client and server to use for a series of messages. This standard provides a framework across organizations that defines how to secure the entire conversation. Use the WS-Security policy to define how the SOAP messages are secured. You can also use WS-Security policies to define the bootstrap policy that is used to acquire security context tokens. Security context tokens are used by secure conversation.
- WS-Reliable Messaging (WS-RM): Enables the sender and receiver to assure the quality of services in a set of messages. With this policy, you can address latency issues, maintenance interruption, and other problems that prevent messages from being completed. This quality assurance is critical for stateful applications.
- WS-Transaction: Provides support for atomic transactions in a Web services environment. This quality of service enables Web service applications and the resources that they use to participate in distributed global transactions.
- HTTP Transport: Applies HTTP features and HTTP connections polices to outbound messages. The response listener policy is enforced on inbound messages.
- SSL Transport: Provides SSL transport security for the HTTP protocol with Web services applications.
Related concepts
Managing qualities of service for Web services and clients using policy sets
Web services policy sets that are included with the product