Securing Axis2/WSAS web services with Username token
Security is a crucial requirement in distributed computing. When it comes to web services, it is even more important. Apache rampart is the module which is used to secure an Axis2 web service. There are numerous approaches to secure your Axis2 web service using rampart module. Username token authentication can be considered as the simplest mechanism to protect your service. Lets see how the username token authentication is enabled in your web service and write a client easily using WSO2 WSAS which dramatically simplifies most of the complex steps. I will demonstrate the scenario using WSO2 WSAS 2.2.1. You can follow most of the steps given here with Axis2 as well. Lets assume WSO2 WSAS is configured in your system and it is up and running. (See WSAS installation guide if you want to know how WSAS is deployed). Step 1 Access WSAS management console using https://localhost:9443 and log in using default admin credentials (admin/admin). I'm going to explain how to secure one of the de...