Web services enhancements 3.0 <policy> Element specifies one or more SOAP Message requirements. A policy element can have one or more child elements. <policy name="unique policy name"> <anonymousForCertificateSecurity /> <mutualCertificate10Security /> <kerberosSecurity /> ...
Overview of WSE 3.0
Introduction Web Services Enhancements is a .NET class library to develop web services using latest protocols. Features Securing the Web Services: It is difficult to secure a web service that cross the security domains. We can secure a web service by sending over secure transport, such as Secure Socket Layer(SSL) but that holds good when the communication is point-to-point. Some times SOAP...
HOST ASP.NET Web service in a Windows service
The following is the procedure to host a web service in windows service. Open Visual Studio 2005. Create an ASP.NET Web service. a. File menu, choose New Web Site b. In the New Web Site dialogue box, select the ASP.NET Web Service. c...
SOAP Message Routing with WSE
A application using WSE can be designed by setting up a intermediary computer that is configured to run on WSE router. Clients send messages to WSE router instead of to the web service. WSE Router Benefits of using WSE router is computer that hosting a web service can be taken offline for maintenance with out modifying the client code or its configuration. Administrator prepares a web.config file...
MTOM Support to Web Service
Overview of MTOM Using MTOM an application can send or receive a large amount of data. MTOM allows message-level security to be applied to the message including binary data. MTOM encodes the SOAP message and transmits the message as XML. Following is the procedure to send large amount of data using MTOM Open the web service project in Visual studio 2005 2. Enable the project to...
Digital Signing the SOAP Message
WSE allows you to digitally sign a SOAP Messages by overriding the SecureMessage method. To sign a SOAP message 1. The following code example overrides the SecureMessage method. public override void SecureMessage(SoapEnvelope envelope, Security security) { //Obtain the security token with which you want to sign the SOAP message with. KerberosToken kerbToken = new KerberosToken("host/" +...
Adding Security Credentials to SOAP
The WSE 3.0 for .NET enables the developers for creating one or more security credentials that can be added to the SOAP Message. The following procedure describes how to add one or more security credentials to a SOAP Message.A computer must be configured to accept the SOAP Messages embedded with the security credentials. Two types of security credentials that can be setup for the computer X.509...
Verify SOAP Messages Signed using Username and Password
To validate digital signatures for incoming SOAP Messages created using Username Token, WSE Must be configured. The following procedure explains how to configure a WSE to validate digital signatures created using Username Token. 1. Start Visual studio 2005 2. File Menu, New then click Project. 3. Select ASP.NET Web Service in the templates pane. 4. Add a reference to the Microsoft.Web...
Configure WSE to Validate SOAP Message
One type verifying the SOAP message is validating the digital signature for the incoming message.Signature validation is done by WSE prior to the execution of the recipient code. The following procedure can be used to configure the WSE to validate the digital signature for SOAP message. 1. Start Visual studio 2005 2. File Menu, New then click Project. 3. Select ASP.NET Web Service in the...
Service-Oriented Architecture(SOA)
Introduction SOA represents new model for building distributed applications. SOA is a platform where you can expose your organization business logic through services. Here services are the interfaces which process and deliver the XML Messages. SOA approach makes sense when we build applications cross organizational. A business with multiple systems and applications on different platforms ...