Long before terms like “Web service” and “SOA” were coined, Francois Lascelles was developing applications using SOAP and other XML standards. Francois joined Layer 7 Technologies in its earliest days and helped shape the vision of the SecureSpan product line. Today, as a member of Layer 7 Technologies’ engineering team, Francois assists corporations in taking full advantage of Web service security technologies.
The WS Secure Conversation specification describes a mechanism letting multiple parties establish a context (using the WS Trust Request Security Token standard) and secure subsequent SOAP exchanges. Each WS Secure Conversation session has an associated shared secret. Instead of using t...Apr. 17, 2006 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 13,671 Replies: 2
Imagine a fresh business relationship between ACME Corporation and Partner. As a result of this relationship, ACME wants to grant Partner limited access to one of its core internal applications. They do this, naturally, by exposing a Web service.
