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How do I secure webservices on Weblogic10 using Certificates?

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I need to secure webservices on Weblogic10 using certificates.Can you please help me out?

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Answers

 

by: shivaspkPosted on 2008-07-24 at 03:37:40ID: 22077605

You may like to go through this article

http://edocs.beasys.com/wls/docs81/webserv/security.html#1053182

when you meant certificate what certificate are u talking about ? many trust certificate are there in web services world, it it SSL or SAML ??

 

by: greensuniePosted on 2008-07-25 at 09:50:43ID: 22090247

There are a number of different ways to secure web services. You can use WSSE tokens to restrict access by username/password (for access control), XML signartures and/or XML encryption for message-level encryption, and of course running the service over HTTPS as a means of transport level encryption....

I really need more clarification about how you want to secure the service.

Weblogic's documentation is really quite good.  I highly suggest you take a look at the following four web pages.  They will help you to determine how you want to go about doing things:

Weblogic - The three types of security:
http://edocs.beasys.com/wls/docs100/webserv_sec/overview.html#wp209827

How to configure security at the transport level (I suspect this is what you are looking for):
http://edocs.beasys.com/wls/docs100/webserv_sec/transport.html

How to configure security at the message level (this is mainly via implementation of WS-Security standards):
http://edocs.beasys.com/wls/docs100/webserv_sec/message.html

How to configure access control as a means for securing web service calls (this is where you map username/passwords sent in the soap request header to principals in weblogic):
http://edocs.beasys.com/wls/docs100/webserv_sec/access_control.html

 

by: chintapsPosted on 2008-07-28 at 12:23:35ID: 22106063

I want to configure access control for securing webservices.Weblogic Docs mention abt the JWS File to be edited, where is this JWS File located?

Can we create the users and groups externally from the WL Admin console instead of editing the JWS FIle?

 

by: greensuniePosted on 2008-07-28 at 16:30:45ID: 22107643

A JWS file is a "Java Web Service" file, with extension .jws.  It's an extension used by Weblogic Workshop.  If you're not coding in Weblogic Workshop you can't use their value added services to secure your web services.  You need to still do things by hand.  The URLs I provided in my previous post go through how to secure your web services step by step.  If you wish to secure web services based on user authentication (i.e. only authorized users may consume the service, you want to look at the last link in my post.

Are your users and groups located on an LDAP server?  You can hook Weblogic into an LDAP server and it will pull in all your users (as Weblogic "principals") and groups and you can secure web services against those groups.  You can also secure against users, but it's not recommended to do so for individuals.  Instead place them into a group.

I'm sorry about the general/vague answers, but your questions don't contain enough detail to provide specific answers. If you would provide more details, like what framework you're using to create web services, what you've got done so far, etc...

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