FMW PS6 (11.1.1.7.0) released!

Just a quick note - FMW PS6 has been released. OWSM is part of the FMW release train. As was the case with the previous FMW Patchset release - this is a feature bearing release.

The OWSM PS6 documentation describes as part of what's new section an exhaustive list of features:

• Check the Status of Oracle WSM Components

• Token Attribute Rules

• WLST Commands for Managing Distinguished Name (DN) Lists

• Policy Accessor Properties for Tuning the Repository Connection

• ID Context Propagation

• Automatic Oracle WSM Repository Upgrade After Patch Set Installation

• WLST Commands to Attach Policies to Java EE Web Services

• Keystore Service (KSS) Enhancements

• Servlet Application Security

• Interoperability of Oracle WSM with .NET AND ADFS 12.0 STS

• Ability to Sign and Encrypt SOAP Parts and Elements in Fault Messages

In future blog posts I will post in more detail about some of the features - but in this blog post I wanted to highlight one particular features that I think customers are going to find very useful:

Securing REST services (a.k.a Servlet Application Security)

Customers can build REST services in one of two ways:

• As Servlet applications without using any REST technology stack
• Using REST stacks like Jersey JAX-RS

In PS6 - OWSM support's securing REST services built using either methodologies. So all the capabilities and power of OWSM to secure SOAP services can now be used for securing REST services.

Here is are some quick doc pointers:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/web.1111/e13734/rest.htm#BHABFDGJ

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/web.1111/b32511/policies.htm#CHDEJIIF

Note: In this release OWSM does NOT SUPPORT securing REST clients - for example REST Clients built using the Jersey JAX-RS stack.