SAML2 Use Cases
The following blog posts discuss SAML2 use cases that have been explored in this series:
SAML v2.0 vs. JWT: SAML2 Single Logout
This 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.
SAML v2.0 vs. JWT: SAML2 with SOAP Web Services and REST APIs
This 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.
What is Authentication?
I’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…
Some Simple Updates To A DataPower XSLT stylesheet.
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…
SOAP Web Service Mockup tutorial on DataPower
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,…
What is a Web Service? What is a Service?
I 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…
Service Mediation vs. Service Orchestration
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…
Data Formats
To 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.
Wire Protocols
Like so much of our computer industry, the ecosystem around SOA has many acronyms, buzzwords, and phrases that are supposed to mean something. Likewise, this jargon may be poorly defined or ambiguous. The posts that I have made over the past few months are slowly building up a common vocabulary…
Recommended Reading Material for SOA
Following up on the recommended reading lists I’ve posted recently, this post contains a list of the books and specifications that I direct people to about SOA.
SOA Security Reading Material
At nearly every client site, I’m asked to put together a recommended reading list on a variety of subjects. Web Services security is generally among them. SO, I’m putting together a list of the links that usually make it on that list.