Security for Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures

Web services technologies are advancing fast and being extensively deployed in many different application environments. Web services based on the eXt- sible Markup Language (XML), the Simple Object Access Prool (SOAP), and related standards, and deployed in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are the key to Web-based interoperability for applications within and across organizations. Furthermore, they are making it possible to deploy appli- tions that can be directly used by people, and th...