I secured my web service with basic authentication and I'm trying to use the SAAJ API to access it: //System.setProperty("http.basic.username", "user"); //System.setProperty("http.basic.password", "pass"); URL endpointUrl = new URL(endpoint); SOAPMessage response = connection.call(message, endpointUrl); connection.close(); Using the system property approach works but I was wondering if there is a better way to pass the username/password information? Sun's reference implementation (http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.6/saaj/saaj-security.html) states that I should be using http://USER:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/FILE but this doesn't work. Looking at the implementation (/webservice/src/main/org/jboss/ws/soap/SOAPConnectionImpl.java), it seems that I could pass an EndpointInfo object into the call method but this class seems to be a server class. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3970203#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...