High Performance Security for SOA and XML Web Services Using Oracle Web Services Manager and Oracle SPARC Enterprise T-Series Servers

This paper details the high performance security strategies for Oracle Web Services Manager secured SOA and XML Web services by adopting the on-chip cryptographic acceleration capabilities of Sun SPARC Enterprise T-Series Servers. Using cryptographic solutions for application security are computationally intensive, which adds significant CPU overheads and severely impacts on the latency and throughput of the Web service transactions. This paper presents the business value, technical pre-requisites, configuration, deployment, and verification guidelines for integrating Oracle Web Services Manager with Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework on Oracle SPARC Enterprise T-Series servers for delivering wire-speed acceleration of transport layer and message-layer security scenarios.