Basic Auth on a CXF-BC consumer

[Jim Talbut]

Hi,
 
I need to proxy web services with an almost identical web service that offers 
additional facilities.
One of the additional facilities is HTTP basic authentication.
To try to be clear: the actual implementation of the web service has no 
authentication, but the web service used by clients must have it.
 
I can't find any way to configure the CXF BC to do this.
The book Open Source ESBs in Action describes a code way to do it - is this the 
only option?
 
Thanks
 
Jim