I receive a lot of traffic to my post about HTTP Basic Authentication in Apache CXF. I decided to do a followup to that post to address some of the comments.

I have never tried to use this with Mule but if someone has, please let me know so I can update this post.

I have uploaded the Java code for the BasicAuthAuthorizationInterceptor class. There are a few changes over the original version. This one includes a Map of authorized users and their corresponding passwords. I believe the original example I created was for Apache CXF 2.0. This version works with Apache CXF 2.1.1.

In the original post, I also did not include a sample of how to use this code in a real application. The following section shows a sample of how to define the security interceptor and enable it on a simple endpoint.

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd">
    
    <bean id="securityInterceptor" class="BasicAuthAuthorizationInterceptor">
      <property name="users"> 
        <map>
          <entry key="username" value="password"/>
        </map>
      </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="service" class="sample.Service"/>
    
    <jaxws:endpoint
      id="serviceEndpoint" 
      implementor="#service"
      address="${services.url}/Service">
      <jaxws:inInterceptors>
        <ref bean="securityInterceptor"/>
      </jaxws:inInterceptors>
    </jaxws:endpoint>
</beans>