Testing asymmetric binding policy with soapUI

In the previous section, we looked into two approaches of testing a service secured with transport binding assertion. In this section, we will secure a different service in our sample project using an asymmetric binding policy.

Asymmetric binding

In web services communication, when both the service requestor and provider possess their own key pairs, it can be considered as an asymmetric binding use case.

Note

According to WS-Security policy specification (http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy-1.2-spec-os.html#_Toc161826560), the asymmetric binding assertion is used in scenarios in which message protection is provided by means in WSS:SOAP Message security using the ...

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