Info*Engine provides a mechanism for signing and validating requests to process information on remote Info*Engine task processors and out-of-process adapters.

By setting the server or adapter .secret.text or .secret.text2 properties, you provide an arbitrary text string that is used to sign outgoing requests and validate incoming requests. Each request is signed using java.security.MessageDigest and a MessageDigest algorithm. By combining the secret text and the request information, Info*Engine generates a unique fingerprint. This fingerprint is converted into a string of hex characters and inserted into the request as metadata to be read back and verified by the receiving Info*Engine server or out-of-process adapter.

The following sections describe how to set these properties for a remote task processor or a remote Windchill adapter.