He creado dos aplicaciones web: aplicaciones de cliente y de servicio.
La interacción entre las aplicaciones de cliente y servicio funciona bien cuando se implementan en la misma instancia de Tomcat.
Pero cuando las aplicaciones se implementan en instancias separadas de Tomcat (máquinas diferentes), recibo el siguiente error cuando solicito la aplicación de servicio enviada.

Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. 
Origin 'http://localhost:8080' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 401

La aplicación Mi cliente utiliza JQuery, HTML5 y Bootstrap.

La llamada AJAX se realiza al servicio como se muestra a continuación:

var auth = "Basic " + btoa({usname} + ":" + {password});
var service_url = {serviceAppDomainName}/services;

if($("#registrationForm").valid()){
    var formData = JSON.stringify(getFormData(registrationForm));
    $.ajax({
        url: service_url+action,
        dataType: 'json',
        async: false,
        type: 'POST',
        headers:{
            "Authorization":auth
        },
        contentType: 'application/json',
        data: formData,
        success: function(data){
            //success code
        },
        error: function( jqXhr, textStatus, errorThrown ){
            alert( errorThrown );
        });
}

Mi aplicación de servicio utiliza Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA y Spring Security.

He incluidoCorsConfiguration clase como se muestra a continuación:

CORSConfig.java:

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class CORSConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter  {
    @Override
    public void addCorsMappings(CorsRegistry registry) {
        registry.addMapping("*");
    }
}

SecurityConfig.java:

@Configuration
@EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(prePostEnabled = true)
@EnableWebSecurity
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.services", scopedProxy = ScopedProxyMode.INTERFACES)
public class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("authenticationService")
    private UserDetailsService userDetailsService;

    @Bean
    @Override
    public AuthenticationManager authenticationManagerBean() throws Exception {
        return super.authenticationManagerBean();
    }

    @Override
    protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
        auth.userDetailsService(userDetailsService);
        auth.authenticationProvider(authenticationProvider());
    }

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
       http
                .authorizeRequests()
                .antMatchers("/login").permitAll()
                .anyRequest().fullyAuthenticated();
        http.httpBasic();
        http.sessionManagement().sessionCreationPolicy(SessionCreationPolicy.STATELESS);
        http.csrf().disable();
    }

    @Bean
    public PasswordEncoder passwordEncoder() {
        return new BCryptPasswordEncoder();
    }

    @Bean
    public DaoAuthenticationProvider authenticationProvider() {
        DaoAuthenticationProvider authenticationProvider = new DaoAuthenticationProvider();
        authenticationProvider.setUserDetailsService(userDetailsService);
        authenticationProvider.setPasswordEncoder(passwordEncoder());
        return authenticationProvider;
    }
}

Dependencias de Spring Security:

 <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
            <version>3.2.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
            <version>3.2.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

estoy usandoApache Tomcat servidor para despliegue.