Service providers policy sets and bindings for enterprise applications collection

Use this administrative console page to attach and detach policy sets to an application, a service provider, its endpoints or operations. You can select the default bindings, create new custom bindings, or use bindings that you created for an attached policy set.

This panel provides detail information for an application and its associated Web service providers, endpoints and operations. You can view and manage policy set attachments and bindings information using this page.

To view this administrative console page click Applications > Enterprise Applications > Service_Provider_application_instance > Service provider policy sets and bindings.

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 Application/Service/Endpoint/Operation column lists the service application and the associated service provider, endpoints or operations.

The Attached policy set column might show:
The Binding column might show:

A service resource that inherits a policy set must inherit the bindings for that policy set. You can attach, detach a policy set and configure the bindings by clicking the appropriate button.

You can assign policy sets and bindings that apply for all service provider resources in the application by checking the application and then assigning policy sets and bindings for that application. You can also choose to assign policy sets and bindings to individual service providers. If you choose to attach policy sets and bindings at the application level, you can subsequently tailor the assigned policy sets and bindings for the selected service providers.

Button Resulting action
Attach Click this button to view a list of policy sets available to attach to your application, service, endpoint or operation. Select a policy set from the list and it is attached to the selected application, service provider, 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 application, service, endpoint or operation. After the policy set is detached, if there is no policy set attached to an upper level service resource, the 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 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 application, 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.

Application/Service/Endpoint/Operation

Specifies the name of the application and the associated service provider, endpoints or operations.

Attached policy set

Specifies the attached policy sets to the service providers, endpoints or operations.

Bindings

Specifies the binding information available for an application, service provider, endpoint or operation.




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