Using Rampart With Web Services

There are a number of parts to Rampart security, as indicated in Overview, and covering these in detail is outside the scope of this document; but, the following is provided to give you a high-level view on utilizing Rampart with your IBM Cúram Social Program Management Axis2 web services.

Broadly, there are the steps for using web services security with Axis2:

  1. Define configuration data and parameters for your client and server environments;
  2. Provide the necessary data and code specified in your configuration;
  3. Code a client to identify and process the configuration.

There is a lot of flexibility in how you fulfill the above steps and the following sections will show some possible ways of doing this.