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The Web Services model is rapidly growing as an option for deploying reusable, component-based functionality over the Internet. Exposing these services is the Simple Object Access Protocol, which defines a lightweight mechanism for invoking these services or transactions. The SOAP specification defines a set of rules for using XML to represent such Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs). These RPCs can ride on various transport protocols, such as HTTP, SMTP, and POP3. However, the current SOAP specification (version 1.1) doesn't define all the features developers might expect to find in a traditional distributed object protocol, such as security. This article introduces you to the pluggable provider for Apache SOAP, and how a provider can be implemented to enable user-level secur... (more)