XML and Web Services Security
XML and Web services security can include transport-level security and message-level security. This section discusses transport-level security. Information about using message-level security may be included in future releases of The J2EE Tutorial.
Transport-level security is security addressed by the transport layer. Adding security in this way is discussed in the following example sections:
Authentication verifies the identity of a user, device, or other entity in a computer system, usually as a prerequisite to allowing access to resources in a system. There are several ways in ...
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