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Policy sets and binding considerations for case management tasks

If you select Use security to access the web service from the case management task when you create the web service module in Integration Designer, a default policy set is applied to the export. If you select a long-running BPEL process, a default policy set is applied to both the export and import.

A policy set is a collection of policy types that are configured and associated with a given web service provider or requester. Policy sets do not include environment or platform-specific information, such as the key for signing, keystore information, or persistent store information. These types of information are defined in the binding.


Default policy set and bindings

The following default policy set and bindings are provided by IBM BPM:

The default provider binding is set on the web service export. If a web service import was generated, the default client binding is set on it as well. These policy set bindings act as starting points for your configuration.


Considerations for modifying policy set bindings

In some cases, the default policy set binding might not be appropriate for your particular use. You can create a new policy set binding to add or remove the capabilities of the default binding and associate it with a policy set.

To associate an application-specific binding with a policy set, you copy the default binding and modify it.

For example, the BPM FileNet web services policy set includes the WSAddressing policy and the WSSecurity policy. The WSSecurity policy defines, among other things, the parts of a message that are encrypted and signed, but not how they are encrypted and signed.

If you create an application-specific binding for that policy on an application, you can specify the particular certificates used to encrypt and sign those parts of the message.

For instructions on performing these tasks, see Securing Web services using policy sets.

Administer case management tasks