This page provides a starting point for finding information about web services.
Web services are self-contained, modular applications that can be described, published, located, and invoked over a network. They implement a services oriented architecture (SOA), which supports the connecting or sharing of resources and data in a very flexible and standardized manner. Services are described and organized to support their dynamic, automated discovery and reuse.
The Web Services Security specification defines core facilities for protecting the integrity and confidentiality of a message, and provides mechanisms for associating security-related claims with a message. Web Services Security, an extension of the IBM web services engine, provides a quality of service.
The steps to be taken to enable the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) to interact with a security manager.
The UDDI Version 3 registry uses the advantages of WebSphere® Application Server security. The UDDI registry also supports the UDDI Version 3 Security API and the UDDI Version 1 and Version 2 security features.
Service integration technologies provides a range of facilities for secure communication between the service requester and the service integration bus, and between the bus and the target service.
The WS-Notification security implementation requires that a user identity is flowed in requests for WS-Notification services. This identity is used to authenticate the client application and check that the client is authorized to invoke the requested operation, and to access the underlying service integration bus topic spaces and topic resources.