RESTEasy client : authentication

Was just playing with RESTEasy and needed to do authentication against the server.
Came up with this solution:

  String userId = "myName";
  String password = "verySecret";
 
  Credentials credentials = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(userId, password);
   HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
   httpClient.getState().setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, credentials);
   httpClient.getParams().setAuthenticationPreemptive(true);
     
   ClientExecutor clientExecutor = new ApacheHttpClientExecutor(httpClient);
 
   try {
     URI uri = new URI("http://.....");
     ClientRequestFactory fac = new ClientRequestFactory(clientExecutor,uri); 
 
     ClientRequest request = fac.createRequest("http://.....);

I don't know if there is a better way, as there are a lot of steps to do here. Just thought I should share as documentation is a little sparse here.