Implementing authentication

WS-Security supports a variety of security token types for authentication, such as username tokens, binary tokens, and custom tokens. Username tokens are used in basic authentication, whereas binary tokens (like x.509 and LTPA tokens) are used in more advanced forms of authentication. In this release of WebSphere Integration Developer, the module deployment editor documentation describes how to implement basic authentication using username tokens.

To help illustrate how to implement basic authentication, a running example is used throughout the documentation. The example assumes that you have the following library and modules:

As the import and export names imply, the import sendWebServiceCallToServer sends a request message to the export receiveWebServiceCallFromClient at run time.

In basic authentication, username tokens are inserted in the request message of the import. There are typically no corresponding username tokens in the response message from the export.

The following topics describe how to implement basic authentication using a username token.

Related concepts
Module deployment properties
WS-Security specification
Related tasks
Opening the module deployment editor
Editing WS-Security properties
Related reference
Module deployment editor

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