WSE: Introduction

I'm preparing a series of posts on Web Service Enhancements that should be starting in the next couple of days. I am not going to focus on all aspects of WSE, but instead focus on a single problem: direct authentication integrated with a custom role-based authorization system. My approach will be iterative. I'll start with the simplest possible example and continue to add small layers of complexity until we have a secure, functional WSE implementation.

A couple of notes:

• If you want to follow along, you will need to install WSE 3.0 (a free download from Microsoft).
• Login accounts, roles and resources (i.e., web service names) will be stored in a database. I'll make sure my next post will include a database diagram showing the all of the tables and their relationships, though any number of database schemas will work.