Use this page to manage the settings for your service providers. Attach and detach policy sets to a service, its endpoints or operations. You can add default bindings, create new custom bindings, or use existing bindings for an attached policy set.
This panel displays detailed configuration information for a service provider and its associated endpoints and operations. You can view and manage policy set attachments and bindings information using this page. Use the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) link on the page to view the WSDL document. The Application and Module links provide access to the application and module settings page.
To view this administrative console page expand Services > Service Providers > Service_provider_instance. You can also view this page by expanding Applications > Enterprise Applications >Service_provider_application_instance > Service providers > Service_provider_instance.
About Policy set bindings
Policy set bindings contain platform specific information, like keystore, authentication information or persistent information, required by a policy set attachment. Each policy set attachment to a service provider or service client must have exactly one binding. When you create a policy set attachment, the default bindings are used initially. When default bindings are used in association with a policy set attachment, the cell-level default bindings are applied at runtime. If application server level bindings exist, the server-level default bindings override the cell-level definition. Default bindings specify configuration for both service client and service provider attachments and the default bindings are not tailored to a specific policy set or application. When you define server-level default bindings, the binding begins in a completely unconfigured state. You must add each policy, such as WS-Security or HTTP Transport, that you want to override the default binding and you must fully configure the bindings for each policy that you have added.
A custom binding is a named binding that you create. Custom bindings enable you to provide platform specific configuration information for specific policy set attachments. When you create a custom binding, the available binding configuration options are tailored to the definitions in the attached policy set. You can reuse custom bindings for multiple service resources within an application. When you create a custom binding for a policy set attachment, the binding begins in a completely unconfigured state. You must add each policy, such as WS-Security or HTTP Transport, that you want to override the default binding and you must fully configure the bindings for each policy that you have added.
The Service/Endpoint/Operation column lists the service provider and the associated endpoints or operations.
A service resource that inherits a policy set must inherit the bindings for that policy set. You can attach a policy set, detach a policy set and configure the bindings by clicking the appropriate button:
Button | Resulting action |
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Attach | Click this button to view a list of policy sets available for attachment to your service, endpoint or operation. Select a policy set from the list and it is attached to the selected service, endpoint or operation. To close the drop down list, click Attach button. |
Detach | You can click this button to detach a policy set from a selected service, endpoint, or operation. After the policy set is detached, if there is no policy set attached to an upper level service resource, the Attached policy set column displays None and the Binding column displays Not Applicable. If there is a policy set attached to an upper level service resource, the Attached policy set column displays the <policy set name>(inherited) and the binding used for the upper level attachment is applied. The binding name is displayed with inherited added to it. |
Assign Binding | Click this button to assign bindings from a list of available bindings for the selected policy set attachment. You can choose the default bindings for the selected service, endpoint or operation. You can create new bindings for the policy set attachments. The new binding you create is used for the selected resources. Multi-select option is only valid if all selected resources have the same policy set attached. To close the drop down list, click the Assign Binding button. |
Specifies the name of the service provider, endpoints or operations.
Specifies the attached policy sets to the service providers, endpoints or operations.
Specifies the binding information available for a service provider, endpoint or operation.
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