Investigation on Security Implementation and Performance Aspects of MedWS: a Hierarchical SOAP based Web Service
Abhijit Bora, Tulshi Bezboruah · International Journal of Database Theory and Application · 2014
Security implementation in hierarchical SOAP based web services is essential from the perspectives of efficiency and reliability of the service. We present here a study on the use of encryption, signature and signature followed by encryption security standards in a hierarchical web service. The web service with the security policies is evaluated through the development of the application, testing of the service and evaluation of the performance metrics. The performance latencies are observed and compared to study the response of hierarchical web service against each security policies. Here we present in details the architecture of the service, software aspects, its testing procedure and the performance aspects of implemented security policy along with the outcomes of statistical analysis based on the observed performance metrics.