Multi user management system in web applications using web services

Rapid developing technology, widespread web applications and the interactive communication with users introduced the concept of the identity management. As a result of the interactive communication of the web applications, different ways are used for user authentication and authorization. For the many developed web applications in an organization, in the authentication and authorization, for each applications different user tables, and roles related with users can be defined and code based following in the application can be done. But in such an available structure cause the users are in the organization structure, managing of each applications users, causes both the repetation of data, loss of time, and difficulties of the handling current data of the changing user data in the organization. In this thesis, a central user management application using web services is designed, developed and user information in the organization is taken from the LDAP(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server, so repetation of the data is avoided and current user data is saved. Keywords: Web Services, Authorization, Authentication, Identity Management