Writing a custom Message Formatter for Axis2

Recently I came across to the need to write a custom Message Formatter to handle a custom message type in Axis2.  As it turned out writing a Message Formatter is a darn simple thing. Mainly you only have to implement three methods. . My scenario was to extract out a set of attachments within an [...]

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A Thing or Two About Apache Rampart – Part II

Continuing my adventure with Apache Rampart from my earlier article I decided to follow the DeveloperWorks article on WS-Security. Again I ran in to some issues when I tried using signatures within the messages. Here is a brief account of what happened this time. First road block I encountered was the error shown below. The [...]

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A Thing or Two About Apache Rampart

It seems web service security is not the easiest thing to get right the first time as some things in life (at least for me ). I found this the hard way by trying to secure a service web service deployed in Axis2 with Rampart. Idea was simple. To make a service require a time [...]

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SOA Workshop

Today I attended the SOA workshop conducted by WSO2 Inc. with colloboration with ICTA SriLanka and SLASSCOM. Sessions were conducted by engineers from WSO2. The workshop sessions were at an introductory level of major SOA concepts. Below are some of the notes I took down during the course of the sessions. SOA Security Why just [...]

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