Thursday, April 3, 2014

This is Chapter-3 of OSB interview questions and answers series.


Question: How Security works in OSB?
Answer: Oracle Service Bus leverages Weblogic Security Framework.

Question: Can we use OWSM to secure OSB services?
Answer: Yes, we can use OWSM to secure OSB services.

Question: To secure OSB proxy service, which OWSM policy you will use?
Answer: To secure OSB proxy service, we use OWSM service side policy.

Question: Can we invoke secure web service from OSB?
Answer: Yes, we can use OWSM client policy and invoke secure web service from OSB.

Question: When we use service Account?
Answer: We use Service Account when we are invoking a service which required static authentication.

Question: Can we re-use Service Account for other Business Services as well?
Answer: Yes, we can re-use the Service Account.

Question: What is Transport-Level Security?
Answer:  It refers to transport protocol security means secure the connection over which messages are transferred. E.g. HTTPS means HTTP over SSL.

Question: What is Message-Level security?
Answer: Message level security is used when we want to protect the message exchanged between two applications.


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2 comments :

  1. Hi Vivek,
    How can we use application level authentication?
    Application level means is it the transport or message level security?
    Can we apply that to any xml over http protocol?

    Thanks

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    1. You can go through below link. This will answer your question.

      http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e15866/security_faq.htm

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