First, I want to apologize for my lack of experience with java (including
spring, spring-security, cxf, etc). I might also be asking this question in
the wrong place, but I'm happy with all the help I can get. I  posted this
same question at the spring forum, if they come up with a solution I'll
follow up with the conclusion.

I want to create the following situation: A user accesses a website hosted
by IIS. From IIS, a WCF service is called, which will call a web service
developed using CXF. This service will forward the request to a WebSphere
Enterprise Service Bus, which will forward the message to a WebSphere
Process Server.

IIS (Windows) -> WCF web service (.NET) -> CXF web service (Java) -> WESB ->
WPS

The WebSphere Process Server should be able to identify the user using a
Kerberos token. Therefore, the Kerberos token should be propagated
throughout the whole chain.

As I have no control over the ESB, I started out with the following
scenario:

[1] IIS -> [2] WCF webservice -> [3] CXF webservice -> [4] CXF webservice

The user credentials are propagated from [1] -> [2] -> [3]. However, I’m
unable to call [4], the exception is “Access is denied (user is anonymous)”.

In the CXF service [3], I have a KerberosServiceRequestToken, which contains
a valid token (e.g. getToken() returns a binary array). However, I have no
clue how to invoke the next service using this information (should I create
a new LoginContext somehow?).

Another poblem is the way the Kerberos token is exchanged. Currently, the
token is transmitted over the transport layer (e.g. as a HTTP Header as part
of the Negotiation Challenge). WPS expects the Kerberos token to be
contained within the SOAP-header. Using WCF, this is straigthforward to
implement. However, I haven’t been able to configure CXF to correctly
process the soap header. Does anybody know if this is even possible? 

Thanks in advance,
Henk-Jan.

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