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New Features

This section contains the following topics:

CA SOA Security Manager is Now CA SiteMinder Web Services Security (WSS)

In this release, CA SOA Security Manager is renamed CA SiteMinder Web Services Security (WSS). SOA Agents are renamed CA SiteMinder Web Services Security (WSS) Agents.

Integration With CA SiteMinder®

Before CA SiteMinder® 12.51, CA SiteMinder WSS was a separately available product — CA SOA Security Manager — which required its own extended versions of the Policy Server and Administrative UI. In this release, CA SiteMinder WSS is integrated with CA SiteMinder®, with the following features:

The CA SiteMinder® release includes CA SiteMinder® Web Agents and SiteMinder WSS Agents (formerly SOA Agents).
The CA SiteMinder® Policy Server includes the CA SiteMinder WSS extensions. CA SiteMinder® Agents and SiteMinder WSS Agents can now use the same Policy Server.
The CA SiteMinder® Administrative UI includes the CA SiteMinder WSS extensions so that you can configure CA SiteMinder® and CA SiteMinder WSS security policies using the same Administrative UI.
The CA SiteMinder® license allows the licensee to use CA SiteMinder WSS to protect a limited number of web services. More extensive use still requires a CA SiteMinder WSS license.
SiteMinder WSS Agents for Web Servers include all CA SiteMinder® and CA SiteMinder WSS functionality.
The SiteMinder Agent for JBoss can protect web services and web applications.

Support for UTF-8 Character Sets

CA SiteMinder WSS 12.51 includes the following changes to support UTF-8 international character sets:

CA SiteMinder WSS authentication schemes now support incoming XML messages that are encoded using UTF-8 character sets by default. As a result any value in a message (for example, usernames, passwords, or SAML attributes) can be non-ASCII.
CA SiteMinder WSS now reads configuration files (XmlToolkit.properties, XmlSdkConfig.properties) as UTF-8. Previously they were read as ASCII.
SiteMinder WSS Agents now write log files (XmlAgent.log, soasm_agent.log) using UTF-8.