import java.security.MessageDigest import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64 public String getEncodedPassword(String password) throws UnsupportedEncodingException, NoSuchAlgorithmException ... { MessageDigest messageDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance(ENC_DIGEST_KEY); byte[] digest = messageDigest.digest(password.getBytes()); return new String(Base64.encodeBase64(digest)); }