Wiring a Bean Which Itself has a Constructor

[jcman01]

I have a web service client that has an Authenticator class. The Authenticator requires a username/password. Looking for ideas on how best to wire this. Should I inject the user/pass into the Authenticator or into the client that is instantiating the Authenticator. These are what the two components look like:

    @Controller
    public class WSClient {
        @Autowired
        MyAuthenticator myAuthenticator;
    }

The Authenticator that includes the user/pass:

    public class MyAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
        private final String userName;
        private final String passWord;

        public MyAuthenticator(String userName, String passWord) {
            this.userName = userName;
            this.passWord = passWord;
        }

        @Override
        protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
            return new PasswordAuthentication(this.userName, this.passWord.toCharArray());
        }
    }

[amiladomingo]

Hi,

I'd rather make user/pass parameters to the getPasswordAuthentication() method.

On a different note, if this is a multi-user application, then regardless of where you store it, it should be thread local. Otherwise other requests will override them.