...I have also included the source for a command line application to encrypt a String and save it to a text file.
The source for AESEncryption was actually written by "erickson" from Stack Overflow. The original post can be found here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/992019/java-256-bit-aes-password-based-encryption/992413#992413
...The toolkit contains base classes that simplifies the management of Kerberos login contexts as well as flexibly sign and seal messages between principals using the Java GSS API. The toolkit contains Transformation classes for Kerberizing JMS traffic as well as a super-lean HTTP based protocol stack that supports both Synchronous (RPC) and Asynchronous modalities.