This requirement is different. In the case of some organizations, the WSDL
is copyrighted and distributed out of band. People who get access to these
WSDLs may need to sign a NDA. So, in their deployment, they would allow
authorized users to call the service, but they do not want anybody to get
access to the WSDL through a URL.

Azeez

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Amila Suriarachchi <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi,
>
> First I think just restricting access to a service meta data won't make any
> thing secure.
>
> Then when you add this parameter then it won't show the service both
> authorized and unauthorized people. Correct way is to assign a role. show
> the metadata only if user in that role.
>
> For this in Axis2 we need to assume people have configure the tomcat or
> application user manger component properly and use those roles.
>
> thanks,
> Amila.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> As per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-3316 I have
>> implemented this functionality where you can add the <parameter
>> name="exposeServiceMetadata">false</parameter> parameter to the axis2.xml or
>> services.xml file in order to restrict access to the service metadata.
>>
>> Adding the parameter to axis2.xml will not allow access to the metadata of
>> all services. When specified at the service group or service level, it will
>> be applicable only to those services.
>>
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