Use this task to add or modify the configuration details for a
WS-Security binding that is configured for use with service integration bus-deployed
Web services.
You use WS-Security bindings to secure the SOAP messages
that pass between service requesters (clients) and inbound services, and between
outbound services and target Web services. Bindings provide the information
that the run-time environment needs to implement the WS-Security
configuration (for example "To sign the body, use this key").
Bindings
are administered independently from any Web service that uses them, so you
can create a binding then apply it to many Web services.
To list the
WS-Security bindings, and to view and modify their configuration details,
complete the following steps:
- Start the administrative console.
- In the navigation pane, click . A list of WS-Security bindings is displayed in a WS-Security
bindings collection form.
Each available binding is flagged as one
of the following binding types:
- request consumer, for use when consuming requests from a
client to an inbound service.
- request generator, for use when generating requests from
an outbound service to a target Web service.
- response consumer, for use when consuming responses from
a target Web service to an outbound service.
- response generator, for use when generating responses from
an inbound service to a client.
![[Version 6.0.2]](../was602.gif)
For WS-Security Version 1.0:
- request consumer, for use when consuming requests from a
client to an inbound service.
- request generator, for use when generating requests from
an outbound service to a target Web service.
- response consumer, for use when consuming responses from
a target Web service to an outbound service.
- response generator, for use when generating responses from
an inbound service to a client.
For WS-Security Draft 13:
- request receiver, for use when receiving requests from a
client to an inbound service.
- request sender, for use when sending requests from an outbound
service to a target Web service.
- response receiver, for use when receiving responses from
a target Web service to an outbound service.
- response sender, for use when sending responses from an inbound
service to a client.
![[Version 6.0.2]](../was602.gif)
Each available binding is also flagged as complying
with either the
Web Services Security (WS-Security) 1.0
specification or the WS-Security Draft 13 specification.
Deprecation note: The WS-Security
Draft 13 specification is deprecated in WebSphere Application Server Version
6, and you should only use it to enable inter-operation between applications
running in WebSphere Application Server Version 5 and Version 6, or to allow
continued use of an existing Web services client application that has been
written to the WS-Security Draft 13 specification.
- Click the name of a WS-Security binding in the list. The
current settings for this WS-Security binding are displayed.
- Modify the configuration details for this WS-Security binding. For detailed reference information about each value that you can set,
click on the associated link in the following tables:
- Apply the changes.
If the processing completes successfully, the list of WS-Security
bindings is redisplayed. Otherwise, an error message is displayed.