Before you begin
This task assumes that you have already completed the initial steps for Enabling operation-level authorization.
Why and when to perform this task
As is explained in general terms in Operation-level security - role-based authorization, your target Web service is protected by wrapping it in an EAR file and applying role-based authorization to the EAR file. In this task, the EAR file that contains your Web service (your_webservice.ear) is imported into thewsgwauth.ear file (which contains all of the protected Web services) and the wsgwauth.ear file is modified to set the roles and assign them to methods. This modified wsgwauth.ear file is then deployed in WebSphere Application Server and users are assigned to the previously defined roles.
Use the Assembly Toolkit component of the Application Server Toolkit to complete the following steps:
Steps for this task
What to do next
You are now ready to install the modified copy of the wsgwauth.ear file as described in the final step of Enabling operation-level authorization.