This is along the same lines as the already-answered question 13873;
and in fact, my question has pretty much been asked by someone else at
 
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So here it is:  how can I handle MapPoint .NET authentication from
java?  So far, the suggestion offered in the above link hasn't yielded
me the results I'd like.  And there's something else: even if a java
interface claims to support Digest Authentication, there have been
issues with Microsoft's implementation of Digest Authentication
differing from everyone else's before
(<a href="http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=702&amp;a=24177,00.asp">http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=702&amp;a=24177,00.asp</a>).  I'd be
thrilled if I could get an example of someone saying that they could
successfully authenticate to the MapPoint service from java with a
little description of how they did it...if it's possible to do, I'm
sure someone's done it and told the tale for the world to hear. 
Thanks for any help!
 
P.S.: 
(MapPoint authentication is described at
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mpn20/html/mpdevAuthentication.asp">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mpn20/html/mpdevAuthentication.asp</a>)