We have been talking about web services, how the approaches evolved, and how to write web services, but there is a very important topic when we are talking about exposing services on the Internet that I didn’t mention: security.
Of course, security is one topic in the web services theme, but it is also a theme on its own. I will talk about some overall security concepts, but have in mind that this chapter’s objective is not to broadly explain security, but to teach you how to deal ...