Designing Web Services with the J2EE™ 1.4 Platform JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies

7.1. Security Scenarios

Enterprise environments with Web site applications have a variety of security use case scenarios. Although the spread of Web services has given rise to additional security use cases, these Web services application use cases have similar security needs to those of Web-based enterprise applications (such as browser-based applications accessing Web sites). Typically, Web site and Web service application use cases involve access to services through the Internet or an intranet, allow users to access certain sets of resources but not others, and allow users to perform some set of actions. In addition, users might require access to other resources, such as a database, and they might need to interact with other applications.