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Build secure Web services

Using Rational Application Developer

Indran Naick (indrann@us.ibm.com), e-business architect, EMC
Indran Naick is an e-business architect for IBM Developer Relations Technical Consulting in Austin, Texas, which provides education, enablement, and consulting to IBM business partners. Indran has over 14 years of industry experience. He joined IBM in South Africa in 1990. Prior to being transferred to Austin, he served as a software solutions architect, consulting to a number of financial and government institutions. He has authored a number of publications and is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Jeff Miller (jeffmil@us.ibm.com), e-business architect, EMC
Jeff Miller is a software consultant with IBM ISV and Developer Relations Worldwide Developer Skills program. He has over 24 years of software development experience as an electrical engineer, software developer and architect. His focus at IBM is Java EE application architecture, design, development, Web services, SOA and security. Jeff consults, codes, teaches, writes technical articles and speaks to universities and groups. He is an IBM-certified On Demand Solution Designer and Solution Technologist, an IBM Certified Solution Designer -- Service Oriented Architecture, and is IBM-certified on Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Application Server. Jeff is a CompTIA Security+ Certified Professional. He received his Masters degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Summary:  Security is an essential part of any Web service. Rational Application Developer allows you to take advantage of security standards and without too much effort create all of the necessary configuration to add security to your services. This tutorial shows you how to authenticate using a user ID and password, ensure integrity using digital signatures, and ensure confidentiality using encryption.

Date:  02 Dec 2005
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (1945 KB | 52 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Security is an essential part of any Web service. One option to secure Web services is to create a custom security model and build it into your application, but doing so requires an extensive amount of implementation and maintenance work. As an alternative, Rational Application Developer allows you to take advantage of security standards and without much effort create all of the necessary configuration to add security to your services. This tutorial has shown you how to authenticate using a user ID and password, ensure integrity using digital signatures, and ensure confidentiality using encryption.

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