WS-Policy Future Topics
I already mentioned that there is still more we want to do in our
WS-Policy implementation. Most of that relates to improving and completing
integration into JAX-WS and Glassfish because the support for
the generic WS-Policy framework is almost complete already. Here are a couple
of topics we want to be looking into in the coming months:
- Support for external policy attachments
- This is not exactly straight-forward, because WS-PolicyAttachment
leaves the concrete attachment mechanisms entirely in the open. We
would very much like to get feedback on the needs and desires in that
area.
- Call-back interface for the JAX-WS client to select policy alternatives
- Right now, if a service publishes policies with more than one
policy alternative, we just randomly select the first alternative
that suits us. We want to change that and provide an API that allows
developers to actively select one of the policy alternatives.
- User-defined policy assertions
- Currently, all the supported policy assertions are hard-coded into
WSIT and there is no facility where you could query the policies that
the service or client is applying. We would like to define an API
that makes it possible to query policies and support user-defined
policy assertions.
- Flexible client configuration
- Clients are now looking up their configuration file from the
classpath, which means that clients that share the same classpath
also need to share the client configuration file. That means a lot of
manual work to merge all client configurations into one file. This is
aggravated by the fact that we can process only one target namespace
per client configuration file. Obviously, this needs to improve and
we might have to rethink the current format of the client
configuration file.
These are just a few items from a long list. If you have any feedback on
our WS-Policy implementation, we would love to hear from you.
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Posted at
07:00PM May 18, 2006
by Fabian Ritzmann in Sun |
