WAS v8.5 > Administer applications and their environment > Administer web services - Policy (WS-Policy)Use WS-Policy to exchange policies in a standard format
WS-Policy is an interoperability standard used to describe and communicate the policies of a web service so that service providers can export policy requirements in a standard format. Clients can combine the service provider requirements with their own capabilities to establish the policies required for a specific interaction. WebSphere Application Server conforms to the WS-Policy specification, so that policy information can be exchanged and received in accordance with the WS-Policy standard. For more information about using WS-Policy, see the following topics.
- Configure a service provider to share its policy configuration
- Configure the client policy to use a service provider policy
- Configure the client policy to use a service provider policy from a registry
- Configure a service provider to share its policy configuration using wsadmin.sh
- Configure the client policy based on a service provider policy using wsadmin.sh
- Configure security for a WS-MetadataExchange request
Subtopics
- WS-Policy
WS-Policy is an interoperability standard used to describe and communicate the policies of a web service so that service providers can export policy requirements in a standard format. Clients can combine the service provider requirements with their own capabilities to establish the policies required for a specific interaction.- Use WS-Policy to exchange policies in a standard format
WS-Policy is an interoperability standard used to describe and communicate the policies of a web service so that service providers can export policy requirements in a standard format. Clients can combine the service provider requirements with their own capabilities to establish the policies required for a specific interaction. WAS conforms to the WS-Policy specification, so that policy information can be exchanged and received in accordance with the WS-Policy standard.- Configure a service provider to share its policy configuration
A WAS service provider can share its policy configuration in published Web Services Description Language (WSDL), or WSDL that is obtained using an HTTP GET request or the Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange) GetMetadata request.- Configure the client policy to use a service provider policy
An application that is a web service client can obtain the policy configuration of a web service provider and use this information to establish a policy configuration that is acceptable to both the client and the service provider.- Configure security for a WS-MetadataExchange request
We can configure message-level security for a Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange) GetMetadata request by specifying a suitable policy set and binding. You do this when we configure a web service provider to share its policies or a web service client to obtain the policies of a service provider.
Related concepts:
WS-Policy
Related
Configure a service provider to share its policy configuration using wsadmin.sh
Configure the client policy to use a service provider policy using wsadmin.sh
Manage policy sets
Configure application and system policy sets for web services using wsadmin.sh
Reference:
WS-Policy commands for AdminTask
Service provider policy sets and bindings page
Service provider settings
Policy sharing settings
Service client policy set and bindings page
Service client settings
Policies applied settings