Security

Note: See the bottom of this page to download the sample code used.

Rampart is the Apache Axis2 module that implements the WS-Security features. To add such features to your Web service, Axis2 provides two different configuration mechanisms. One depends on WS-SecurityPolicy and is the approach that is preferred. The other approach is known as the “parameter based configuration”.

If you want to test your Java application which requires digital certificates, here's a collection of such certificates with associated public/private keys in .jks format (the Java standard format - Java Key Store).

For example, you can use these to test Web services or enable SSL support of a Java server (and clients - if you want).

This doesn't look to be something trivial that you can simply do by passing the URL, proxy server host, port, user name and password to an already available class and getting the connection established.

Spring is a great application framework extensively used in Java applications. Spring Security is yet another open source product from the same company that provides extensive security features going beyond what is in the Java Enterprise Edition specifications (Servlets, EJB). Interestingly, you can use Spring Security in any application server you like without modifications to your application. So your security configuration is not going to be different in different environments, it  becomes portable too.