Basic authentication via security realm

[dr...@yahoo.com]

The Axis Web Service Security page states that authenticating soap client calls is currently not integrated with the servlet API:
 
"Note that Axis does not yet integrate with the servlet API authentication stuff. Although the forms authentication is literally off-axis when it comes to SOAP calls, the UserPrincipal notion and integration with server configuration gives some incentive for integration."
 
Is this statement still true?  If it isn't, could somebody please point me to a reference to how to authenticate a caller via a security realm.
 
Thanks!