Core

The core is responsible for:

• retrieval of policies from different sources (wsdl documents, external documents)

• computation of effective policies for service, endpoint, operation and message objects

• on-the-fly provision of interceptors based on the effective policies for a particular message

• verification that one of the effective policy's alternatives is indeed supported.

Policy operations such as merge and normalization (but not intersection) are based on Apache Neethi.