Oacle BPEL PM and ws-secuty

Hi all,
for my school project, i have to evaluate which type of ws-secuty do oracle BPEL PM support.
for this purpose i have installed Oracle BPEL PM 10.1.2 for developer and now i look for a step by step sample that can show me how to use ws-security like username token, x.509 token, saml token within a bpel process to invoke a secure webservice.
thanks in advance
Patrick

As of 10.1.3.3.0 BPEL PM only supports WS-Security Username/Password. All the rest must be done with OWSM.
--olaf

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