Consistent Configuration for HTTP connections

When calling a remote endpoint that is either secured using BASIC authentication or using HTTPS (or even both together) we use the java.net.URL.openConnection() method to obtain the WSDL and related XSDs but we then use JBoss Remoting for the WS call.

This means that both connection approaches need to be configured to call the same endpoint.

If would help if there was some way we could unify the configuration so when calling an endpoint this only needs to be configured once.