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SOA Agent for Application Servers

The SOA Agent for Applications Servers is a container-native agent for J2EE application servers that can be used to authenticate and authorize request messages sent over HTTP(S) or JMS transports to JAX-RPC resources hosted on the following application server platforms:

• IBM WebSphere Application Server
• BEA WebLogic Server

The SOA Agent recognizes requests that meet the following criteria as web service requests to be handled by SOA Security Manager:

• Agent action—POST; all XML message requests are posted. However, SOA Security Manager also provides two other agent actions, ProcessSOAP and ProcessXML, that allow you to create rules that fire for posted requests according to the XML message format.
• Message MIME type—text/xml by default; configurable using the XMLSDKMimeTypes Agent parameter.