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Deploy Federation Web Services as a Web Application

This section contains the following topics:

Federation Web Services Application Overview

Properties File for Federation Web Services

Federation Web Services Application Overview

Federation Web Services (FWS) is a collection of servlets that are packaged as a web application in accordance with the Java Servlet API 2.3 specification. The Federation Web Services application is installed with the Web Agent Option Pack. The application is deployed within an application server, or deployed inside the Tomcat web server, which is embedded in the SPS federation gateway.

The web application is rooted at a specific URL within the web server, http://www.your_webserver.com/affwebservices/. URLs for the servlets included with the FWS application have this same root.

The Federation Web Services application provides these services:

Assertion Retrieval Service (SAML 1.x)
SAML credential collector (SAML 1.x)
Intersite Transfer Service (SAML 1.x)
Artifact Resolution Service (SAML 2.0)
Assertion Consumer Service (SAML 2.0)
Security Token Consumer Service (WS-Federation)
AuthnRequest service (SAML 2.0)
Single Sign-on service (SAML 2.0 and WS-Federation)
Single Logout Service (SAML 2.0)
Signout Service (WS-Federation)
Session Synchronization—ValidateSession & Logout calls—a value-added service, supporting a standards-based SOAP RPC mechanism (for the SAML Affiliate Agent only).
Notification Alert—a value-added service, supporting a standards-based SOAP RPC mechanism (for the SAML Affiliate Agent only)

Note: Session synchronization and notification alert services are only used when the SiteMinder SAML Affiliate Agent is at the relying party. These services are not supported with the SPS federation gateway.