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I used Oracle Zero Downtime Migration Tool to move some databases from OnPrem Exadata to a freshly instantiated OCI Exadata Cloud Service (Quarter Rack to be more precise). I found out then, that the speed and performance of backup and restore to OCI Object Store was more than catastrophical. Instead of advertised ~2,5h for a 5 TB big database over 8 channels, the restore took… more than 20 hours! The backup was not as fast…

WS-Security Username Token Profile is a simple authentication scheme for SOAP-webservices using username an password sent in the requests‘ WS-Security headers. The password is hashed using a salt and a timestamp (password digest) to prevent replay attacks. It is specified in this document. As this does not involve any message encryption it should not be used without transport encryption.
In this post I will show how I configured this for a webservice to be deployed on a recent Weblogic Server (12.2.1.2).