Since 2.1

The Web Services Policy Framework (WS-Policy) provides a general purpose model and corresponding syntax to describe the policies of a Web Service.

WS-Policy defines a base set of constructs that can be used and extended by other Web services specifications to describe a broad range of service requirements and capabilities.

Current JBoss implementation can instrument a webservice with policies attached at endpoint, port or port-type scope level only. There are two different methods to attach policies: providing a wsdl decorated with policies and policy attachments as defined by specifications, or using JBoss proprietary annotations. The first way has the advantage of being standard, while the second one is much more simple to implement. Of course the wsdl generated by these annotations conforms to standard defined in specifications and can be used with any ws-policy compliant client.

Please note that ws-policy specifications only define policy requirements and their attachment method to wsdl through specific extensions. It is out of the scope of ws-policy specifications and thus implementation to define and use the content of assertions. The way these assertions (called domain assertions or domain policies) have to be deployed and used is left to other specification like WS-Security-Policy or more generally to domain specific implementation.