JSP™ and XML Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP™ Application
by Casey Kochmer, Erica Frandsen
SOAP Server Security Concerns
Setting up a SOAP server also includes setting up security. The SOAP server setup in this book is running as a Web application under Tomcat. As a Web application, our SOAP server will inherit all the potential security risks of a Web site. Unfortunately, the typical default installation of a SOAP server will not be secure, so several levels of security should be added to protect the SOAP server to prevent outside programmers from adding or changing the services on our machine. In these examples, the localhost is being used, which means that security isn't a high risk. However, as a topic, security is glossed over too often. Instead, we will take the time to set up some examples to show how you can add security to ...
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