Associating Policies with the Invoke Partner Activity

Invoke Partner activities are bound using the partner links and support the message level security.

Using the service endpoint operation as the security subject ensures consistency in associating the security policies with the service resources. The service resource also exposes the service endpoint operation as a security subject. Exposing partner links as security policy subjects ensures a WS-Security support for all the ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks or TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks BPEL Expension constructs that use partner links for outbound invocations. This implies that the Invoke Partner activity is WS-Security enabled if, it is bound using a partner link that has a SOAP endpoint.

If a user associates the security policies to a particular partner link service endpoint operation, the WS-Security processing is enabled and performed according to the WS-Security guidelines. All the supported WS-Security constructs must work in context with the partner link service endpoint operation security subject.