[Java][Interop] Testing WSS4J

Long time since I wrote anything here, but I've actively started to look at what AXIS and WSS4J has to offer when it comes to do WS-Security in Java and how it interops with web services in .NET using WSE 2.0. It's taken me a while to get the Java environment up and running at home because I had to reinstall the whole box. What I've done now is I've installed Virtual PC 2004 and created an XP image with a complete Java environment

I've downloaded and installed (so far):

j2sdk 1.4.2_06
tomcat
ant
axis
maven (to checkout and built wss4j)
wss4j
cvs
junit
eclipse (java IDE)
lomboz (j2ee plugin for eclipse)

It takes a while to configure maven and all the stuff you need for it (cvs, junit and so on) and get it running and in the end I had to go into the ant script and remove the junit testing :( Biggest problem when working with Axis and Wss4j is the lack of documentation. What I'm following now when I do my experiments are some basic documentation about how to do usernametokens with wss4j written by a kind fellow in the wss4j maillinglist.

I've just got the basic stuff working with a Java client using Axis calling a web service in tomcat using Axis too. That's the easy part, I'll now try to plug in wss4j and do usernametoken... I'll blog the results here before I go to bed :)