CommonHttpMessageSender Credentials

[wi.lee]

Hi there,

When using the CommonHttpMessageSender as the messageSender in a WS clien, I pass the credentials as

<property name="credentials">
			<bean class="org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials">
				<constructor-arg value="username" />
				<constructor-arg value="password" />
			</bean>
		</property>

Should I write the credentials in plain text, or is there a way to relocate them in another file for better maintainability?

What is the best practice?

Best,
wi.lee

[Grzegorz Grzybek]

Hi

You can always use PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer - see http://static.springsource.org/sprin...lderconfigurer.

But if you want to encrypt the password, you should override the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer to perform decryption.

regards
Grzegorz Grzybek

[wi.lee]

Nice, that was the thing I was looking for!
Thank you.