Basic authentication (BasicAuth) refers
to the user ID and password of a valid user in the registry of the target
server. BasicAuth information can be collected in many ways, including through
an administrative console prompt, a standard in (Stdin) prompt, or specified
in the bindings that prevents user interaction.
Before you begin
Important: There is an important distinction between Version
5.x and Version 6.0.x and later applications. The information
in this article supports Version 5.x applications only that are used
with WebSphere® Application
Server Version 6.0.x and later. The information does not apply to Version
6.0.x and later applications.
For more information on BasicAuth
authentication, see: BasicAuth authentication method.
About this task
Attention: WebSphere Application Server supports
nonce (randomly generated token) with BasicAuth authentication. For more information,
see
Nonce.
Complete
the following steps to specify BasicAuth as the authentication method:
Procedure
- Launch an assembly tool. See more information on the
assembly tools.
- Switch to the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
perspective. Click Window > Open Perspective > J2EE.
- Click Application Client Projects > application_name >
appClientModule > META-INF.
- Right-click the application-client.xml file, select Open
with > Deployment descriptor editor.
- Click the WS Extensions tab, which is located at the bottom
of the deployment descriptor editor within the assembly tool.
- Expand the Request sender configuration > Login configuration section.
The only valid login configuration choices for a pure client are BasicAuth and Signature.
- Select BasicAuth to authenticate the client using a user
ID and a password. This user ID and password must be specified
in the target user registry. The other choice, Signature, attempts to authenticate
the client using the certificate used to digitally sign the message.