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The Entitlement Management component of WSO2 Carbon facilitates the management and control of policies defined in XACML. The key functions of this component include:are listed below.

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For more general information on XACML, please see the following:

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Introducing XACML

XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) is an XML-based language for access control that has been standardized by the Technical Committee of the OASIS consortium. XACML is popular as a fine grain authorization method among the community. However, there are aspects of XACML which surpass it being just a fine grain authorization mechanism.

Although XACML was introduced as a strand standard by OASIS in 2003, not many organisations that have been adapted it yet. This is because most of the organizations have not shown interest in moving towards a XACML solution for authorization. The following may be some reasons for this:

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