SOA Agent for Web Servers Functions

The SOA Agent for Web Servers performs the following tasks:

Intercept posted XML messages to protected Web services and work with the Policy Server to determine whether or not a client application should have access.
Ensure a client application’s ability to access Web services quickly and securely. The SOA Agent for Web Servers stores contextual information about client application access privileges in a session cache. You can optimize performance by modifying the cache configuration settings.
Support multistep and chain authentication service models by generating and consuming SAML Session Tickets and WS-Security tokens.