Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE

BasicAuthenticationMechanismDefinition

BasicAuthenticationMechanismDefinition will trigger the browser of the client to prompt for a username and password, which maps to the HTTP basic authentication mechanism that isn't very widely used any more. The following code is an example of this:

@BasicAuthenticationMechanismDefinition(        realmName = "top-level-realm")@ApplicationScopedclass ApplicationConfig : Application() {    override fun getClasses(): Set<Class<*>> {        val classes = HashSet<Class<*>>()        classes.add(Controller::class.java)        return classes    }}

The request has to specify the user ID and password in Base 64-encoded format, such as Basic {{userId:secret}}. It must then pass it to the authorization header.

For browser-based clients, the server ...