24 articles tagged Web Services.
AWS Outposts moves the AWS cloud services into your onprem data center. It is a hybrid-cloud platform from Amazon Web Services that extends AWS infrastructure and services into your own datacenter, colocation facility, etc. With AWS Outposts, AWS ships you AWS-designed racks with pre-configured…
Read article: AWS Outposts Migration Security Considerations: Part 1The following blog posts discuss SAML2 use cases that have been explored in this series:
Read article: SAML2 Use CasesThis post wraps our look at SAML v2.0 Use Cases. The first four use cases are described in “SAML v2.0 vs JWT: SAML2 Web Application SSO Use Cases” and “SAML v2.0 vs. JWT: SAML2 with SOAP Web Services and REST APIs”. The full list of SAML2 vs JWT-related blog posts can be found here.
Read article: SAML v2.0 vs. JWT: SAML2 Single LogoutThis post continues our look at SAML v2.0 Use Cases. The first two use cases are described in “SAML v2.0 vs JWT: SAML2 Web Application SSO Use Cases”. The full list of SAML2 vs JWT-related blog posts can be found here.
Read article: SAML v2.0 vs. JWT: SAML2 with SOAP Web Services and REST APIsI’ve talked about authentication many times on ThinkMiddleware.com. It recently occurred to me that I have never devoted a blog post to defining authentication. I’ve had a section on the subject in a couple of different places, but I wanted to have an article to reference from other posts. So, here…
Read article: What is Authentication?In the last post, we saw how an XML Firewall in loopback mode could be used to return a valid SOAP response to a service message. The stylesheet used simply returned a static SOAP response that was independent of the input parameters. The stylesheet returns a response containing the sum of two…
Read article: Some Simple Updates To A DataPower XSLT stylesheet.It is often the case that a DataPower developer will have work to do, but does not yet have a backend Service Provider to point the DataPower service at. In general, anything beyond trivial examples will need to point at something that returns a valid response. In order to satisfy this requirement,…
Read article: SOAP Web Service Mockup tutorial on DataPowerI have watched this debate unfold at every client site I have visited in the past few years. There are several angles to this question. From a technical stand point, a service is a program that takes some type of input, performs a task, and return some type of output. This is vague. It can describe…
Read article: What is a Web Service? What is a Service?I’ve wanted to define this term for a while, but, someone beat me to it several years ago. I generally agree with what these guys have to say. These terms are still in use today at client sites where DataPower and the IBM SOA stack is being deployed. Service Mediation logic is the application of…
Read article: Service Mediation vs. Service OrchestrationTo follow up on the Wire Protocol post, the next logical step in our SOA exploration is Data Formats. A web service message’s Data Format describes how the data is organized in the message.
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