Master Java Web Services and REST API with Spring Boot- Step 18 - Implementing Security for SOAP Web Services with WS Se

The video tutorial explains WS Security, focusing on its transport independence and specifications for authentication. It covers adding security dependencies for Spring Web Services, configuring the XWS security interceptor, and implementing a callback handler for password validation. The tutorial also details defining a security policy XML and testing the security configuration with various credentials. The process involves creating a security interceptor, adding it to the list of interceptors, and ensuring requests are authenticated using a username and password.

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