Axis2 - Calling a Service which is Protected by HTTP Basic Authentication

If you need to call a service which is protected using HTTP Basic Authentication with Apache Axis2, then you could do so by setting the following property on the options object.

HttpTransportProperties.Authenticator authenticator = new HttpTransportProperties.Authenticator();
authenticator.setUsername("keith");
authenticator.setPassword("keith");
authenticator.setPreemptiveAuthentication(true);
options.setProperty(HTTPConstants.AUTHENTICATE, authenticator);

If you are using a generated stub you could get hold of the options object as,

stub._serviceClient.getOptions();