SAML token

The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based OASIS standard for exchanging user identity and security attributes information. We can apply policy sets to JAX-WS applications to use SAML assertions in web services messages and in web services usage scenarios. Use SAML assertions to represent user identity and user security attributes, and optionally, to sign and to encrypt SOAP message elements. WebSphere Application Server supports SAML assertions using the bearer subject confirmation method and the holder-of-key subject confirmation method as defined in the OASIS Web Services Security SAML Token Profile Version 1.1 specification. Policy sets and general bindings that support SAML are included with the product SAML function. To use SAML assertions, modify the provided sample general binding.

The SAML function also provides a set of APIs that can be used to request SAML tokens from a Security Token Service (STS) using the WS-Trust protocol. APIs are also provided to locally generate and validate SAML tokens. For more information, read about APIs for SAML.

Related concepts

Overview of APIs for SAML

Related information:

Web Services Security: SAML Token Profile 1.1, OASIS Standard, 1 February, 2006