XML Gateway: Best Practices, Requirements and deployment Strategies

XML Gateways are a great IT component for managing information flow between your enterprise and your trading partners.  They provide the required functionality, such as:

• Identity bridging (e.g., from HTTP Basic Auth to SAML)
• Transport mediation (e.g., between HTTP and MQ Series)
• Protocol and content based security (e.g., HTTPS, WS-Signatures, WS-Encryption)
• Message inspection (e.g., for SQL Injection, Viruses, and other malware)
  
• Interface Virtualization
• Transformation, Schema Validation

Such functions make is easy and cost effective for enterprises to integrate with their trading partners is a secure manner.  Here's a good article for best practices using XML-Gateways.

http://forumsys.com/resources/resources/whitepapers/Best_Practices_in_Deploying_SOA_Gateways.html