This section describes how to use the Broker Java client API COM.activesw.api.client.BrokerConnectionDescriptor class to configure and manage basic authentication. This class contains the methods to get and to set basic authentication related settings. For Java APIs, all basic authentication information is passed by the BrokerConnectionDescriptor object. When a BrokerConnectionDescriptor object is created, the default basic authentication settings will be set by reading the corresponding Java property values.