Java Web Service client basic authentication

Question

I have created a JAX-WS Web Service on top of Glassfish which requires basic HTTP authentication.

Now I want to create a standalone java application client for that Web Service but I don't have a clue of how to pass the username and password.

It works with Eclipse's Web Service explorer, and examining the wire I found this:

POST /SnaProvisioning/SnaProvisioningV1_0 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 311
Accept: application/soap+xml, application/dime, multipart/related, text/*
User-Agent: IBM Web Services Explorer
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
SOAPAction: ""
Authorization: Basic Z2VybWFuOmdlcm1hbg==
Connection: close

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:q0="http://ngin.ericsson.com/sna/types/v1.0" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <soapenv:Body>
    <q0:listServiceScripts/>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

How do I pass the username and password in this "Authorization" header using java code? Is it hashed or something like that? What is the algorithm?

Without security involved I have a working standalone java client:

SnaProvisioning myPort = new SnaProvisioning_Service().getSnaProvisioningV10Port();
myPort.listServiceScripts();

Answer 1

The JAX-WS way for basic authentication is

Service s = new Service();
Port port = s.getPort();

BindingProvider prov = (BindingProvider)port;
prov.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, "myusername");
prov.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, "mypassword");

port.call();