LERSSE-PRESENTATION-2005-016

Experience Report: Design and Implementation of a Component-Based Protection Architecture for ASP.NET Web Services

Konstantin Beznosov

16 October 2005

Abstract: This presentation reflects, from a software engineering perspective, on the experience of designing and implementing protection mechanisms for ASP.NET Web services. The limitations of Microsoft ASP.NET container security mechanisms render them inadequate for hosting enterprise-scale applications that have to be protected according to diverse and/or complex applicationspecific security policies. In this presentation, we report on our experience of designing and implementing a component-based architecture for protecting enterprisegrade Web service applications hosted by ASP.NET. Due to its flexibility and extensibility, this architecture enables the integration of ASP.NET into the organizational security infrastructure with less effort by Web service developers. The architecture has been implemented in a real-world security solution. This paper also contributes a best practice on constructing flexible and extensible authentication and authorization logic for Web services by using Resource Access Decision and Attribute Function (AF) architectural styles. Furthermore, the lessons learned from our design and implementation experiences are discussed.

Keyword(s): Component-Based Software Development ; Engineering Security Mechanisms ; Web services ; ASP.NET

Published in: Konstantin Beznosov, "Experience Report: Design and Implementation of a Component-Based Protection Architecture for ASP.NET Web Services," presented at the Eighth International SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 15 May, 2005. :

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