Authentication woes

[Xander van der Merwe]

Title: Sax and xerces

I've been having problems getting authentication to work from non-Java clients (e.g. VB6, etc). I was wondering whether it would be so silly to ignore the normal authentication mechanism and simply included a UserName and Password set of parameters in each and every webservice method that is exposed. This would provide for any easy no-nonsense authentication mechanism that will work for any client.   Any thoughts appreciated...   Thanks Xander