Features

  • Support of SOAP
  • Support of SAML 2.0
  • Support of XACML 1.0
  • Support of XACML 2.0
  • Support of XACML 3.0 current draft
  • Support of GeoXACML 1.0
  • Easy to configure
  • Easy to manage
  • Flexible
  • Non-Intrusive (client won't "see" any changes)
  • Scalable
  • Extensible
  • Generic (nearly every SOAPservice using WSDL 1.1can be secured)
  • Supports basic Access Control on Data-Level (to some extend)
  • Supports basic response filtering (to some extend)

Limitations

  • CHARON services have to run within Axis2v1.4.1 or higher (see EIG Security Handler, PEP Integration)
  • CHARON services need Java21.6
  • Currently no "automatic" WSDL 2.0support (see ProxyGenerator)