How to add basic authentication to a Axis2 service?

Question

I created a service with wsdl2java from Axis2 and I want to add HTTP basic authentication.

I read this document and this document from Axis2 home page but it doesn't seem to explain the server configuration. How can I configure basic authentication on server side?

Answer 1

I would normally host my webservices using a web server (nginx/apache) and/or a app server (tomcat) and configure the basic authentication there. You get better control, logging and monitoring options this way. Specially if you want to authenticate against a database, LDAP or active directory.

Answer 2

I use embeded Jetty and I deployed Axis2 war.

I added basic authentication to Jetty using the example from here with 2 small changes:

• user and password are passed directly in the code like this:

loginService.putUser("username", Credential.getCredential("password"), new String[] {"user"});

• the line

mapping.setPathSpec("/*");

is changed to match only my service web path so user and password will not be required for the rest of the axis interface.