Securing Oracle Service Bus REST services with OAuth2 (without using additional products)

OAuth2 is a popular authentication framework. As a service provider it is thus common to provide support for OAuth2. How can you do this on a plain WebLogic Server / Service Bus without having to install additional products (and possibly have to pay for licenses)? If you just want to implement and test the code, see this installation manual. If you want to know more about the implementation and choices made, read on!

Oracle SOA and WebLogic: Overview of key and keystore configuration

Keystores and the keys within can be used for security on the transport layer and application layer in Oracle SOA Suite and WebLogic Server. Keystores hold private keys (identity) but also public certificates (trust). This is important when WebLogic / SOA Suite acts as the server but also when it acts as the client. In this blog post I'll explain the purpose of keystores, the different keystore types available and which configuration is relevant for which keystore purpose.