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Federation Web Services

The Federation Web Services (FWS) application is installed with the Web Agent Option Pack on a server that has a connection to a SOA Security Manager Policy Server. The Federation Web Services and the SOA Security Manager Web Agent support the following web browser single sign-on profiles. These profiles convey information from one site to another via a standard commerical browser.

The supported profiles are:

• SAML artifact profile (1.x and 2.0)
• SAML POST profile (1.x and 2.0)
• WS-Federation Passive Requestor profile