By Ben, on July 26th, 2008
When designing components for a SOA landscape (or any multiprocess system), the primary concern is with the communication behavior of the component: how messages are passed to and from the component and in what order, what those messages are and what constitutes a valid message and what doesn’t. When the time comes to implement the [...]
By Allard, on June 1st, 2008
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about Web Service security. Using password authentication doesn’t prevent unauthorized users to access your data, while SSL / HTTPS doesn’t give you any information about who is trying to access your services. And did you ever think of signing you messages with a digital signature?
In my introductory [...]
By Allard, on May 26th, 2008
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about Web Service security. Using password authentication doesn’t prevent unauthorized users to access your data, while SSL / HTTPS doesn’t give you any information about who is trying to access your services. And did you ever think of signing you messages with a digital signature?
In my introductory [...]
By Allard, on May 20th, 2008
Recently, I’ve been helping a customer with some Web Service issues. One of the problems was their limited knowledge of security in that area. He asked me to explain, in Jip and Janneke language [1] how SSL works and what it actually secures.
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about Web Service security. Using [...]
By Allard, on May 17th, 2008
Recently, I’ve been helping a customer with some Web Service issues. One of the problems was their limited knowledge of security in that area. He asked me to explain, in Jip and Janneke language [1] how SSL works and what it actually secures.
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about Web Service security. Using [...]
By Ben, on March 21st, 2008
If you want to make an omelette… you have to shoot some ducks!
A counterpoint to Arjen Poutsma’s WS-DuckTyping
Author’s note: this was actually an article written by me for a different publication some time back. However, this is its first publication.
Introduction
In his blog on WS-DuckTyping, Arjen Poutsma gives some tips on using duck typing (essentially dynamic [...]
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