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SOA component design: thinking about error handling

Ben — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:08:27 +0000

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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 [...]

Feeling secure with Web Services – Part 3 – Digital Signature

Allard — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:10:55 +0000

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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 [...]

Feeling secure with Web Services – Part 2

Allard — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:23:04 +0000

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Feeling secure with Web Services – Part 1 – The UsernameToken

Allard — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:25:59 +0000

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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 [...]

Feeling secure with Web Services – Introduction

Allard — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:45:27 +0000

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Shooting ducks

Ben — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:39:42 +0000

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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 [...]