Hopefully, this is the right forum and there is no thread on this already (I did a search).
We have developed simple "services" using servlets that query databases based on supplied parameters and return relevant data in XML format. The servlets run under WAS on a Solaris box. The clients of the services will be web application (mostly ASP and CF on NT boxes). We have taken the simply approach of locking down access to some of the services by the requesting IP address, but we want the ability to lock down access by the requesting application. That is there may be multiple web applications on a given server, but we want to limit access to a given service by the requesting application. Anyone have the answer or any ideas? Thanks!