JUG-PT (Java Users Group) meeting

The next JUG-PT (Portuguese Java Users Group) meeting is on January, 29.
The agenda includes a presentation on Maven, which I been using lately with a moderate happiness degree.

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The case of the missing binding

Today, while preparing a training session on WCF, I decided to use Eclipse’s Web Services Explorer (WSE) to view and interact with a WCF-based service (using plain WSHttpBinding).
However, after processing the service’s WSDL description, WSE showed a service with an empty binding list.
Knowing that some web services stacks don’t support WSDL descriptions divided into multiple [...]

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A References List for SOAP based Services Security

For more that one time, I’ve been asked for a list of references regarding security in SOAP-based services. This time, I’ve decided to blog it so that I can find it/link to it in the future: 

Security in a Web Services World: A Proposed Architecture and Roadmap. A whitepaper, co-authored by IBM and Microsoft, on the [...]

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Using Digital Credentials on The World-Wide Web

While looking for references on Automated Trust Negotiation, I found this paper: M. Winslett, N. Ching, V. Jones, I. Slepchin, “Using digital credentials on the World Wide Web”, Journal of Computer Security, 1997.
The concepts and solutions proposed by this paper, more than ten years ago, have lots of similarities with more recent proposals, such as [...]

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