Spring-security not processing pre/post annotations

Question

Trying to get pre/post annotations working with a web application, but for some reason nothing is happening with spring-security. Can anyone see what im missing?

web.xml contextConfigLocation /WEB-INF/rvaContext-business.xml /WEB-INF/rvaContext-security.xml

<context-param>
    <param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j.properties</param-value>
</context-param>

<!-- Spring security filter -->
<filter>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>


  <!--
  - Publishes events for session creation and destruction through the application
  - context. Optional unless concurrent session control is being used.
  -->
<listener>
  <listener-class>org.springframework.security.web.session.HttpSessionEventPublisher</listener-class>
</listener>

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>rva</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>rva</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/rva/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

rvaContext-secuity.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
  xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.xsd"&gt;

<global-method-security pre-post-annotations="enabled"/>

<http use-expressions="true">
    <form-login />
    <logout />
    <remember-me />

<!-- Uncomment to limit the number of sessions a user can have -->
    <session-management invalid-session-url="/timeout.jsp">
        <concurrency-control max-sessions="1" error-if-maximum-exceeded="true" />
    </session-management>

    <form-login login-page="rva/login" />
</http>
...

LoginController class: @Controller @RequestMapping("/login") public class LoginController {

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String login(ModelMap map){
        map.addAttribute("title", "Login: AD Credentials");
        return("login");
    }

    @RequestMapping("/secure")
    @PreAuthorize("hasRole('ROLE_USER')")
    public String secure(ModelMap map){
        return("secure");
    }


}

In the logs, there is nothing even related to spring-security:

logs:

INFO: Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'rva'
INFO [org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] - FrameworkServlet 'rva': initialization started
INFO [org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext] - Refreshing WebApplicationContext for namespace 'rva-servlet': startup date [Fri Mar 26 10:28:51 MDT 2010]; parent: Root WebApplicationContext
INFO [org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader] - Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/rva-servlet.xml]
INFO [org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory] - Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@a2fc31: defining beans [loginController,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalConfigurationAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalAutowiredAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalRequiredAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalCommonAnnotationProcessor,freemarkerConfig,viewResolver]; parent: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@cc74e7
INFO [org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer] - ClassTemplateLoader for Spring macros added to FreeMarker configuration
INFO [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/login/secure] onto handler [com.cable.comcast.neto.nse.rva.controller.LoginController@79b32a]
INFO [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/login/secure.*] onto handler [com.cable.comcast.neto.nse.rva.controller.LoginController@79b32a]
INFO [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/login/secure/] onto handler [com.cable.comcast.neto.nse.rva.controller.LoginController@79b32a]
INFO [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/login] onto handler [com.cable.comcast.neto.nse.rva.controller.LoginController@79b32a]
INFO [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/login.*] onto handler [com.cable.comcast.neto.nse.rva.controller.LoginController@79b32a]
INFO [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping] - Mapped URL path [/login/] onto handler [com.cable.comcast.neto.nse.rva.controller.LoginController@79b32a]
INFO [org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] - FrameworkServlet 'rva': initialization completed in 417 ms
Mar 26, 2010 10:28:52 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Mar 26, 2010 10:28:52 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Mar 26, 2010 10:28:52 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/31  config=null
Mar 26, 2010 10:28:52 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 1873 ms
WARN [org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound] - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/rva-web/] in DispatcherServlet with name 'rva'

Answer 1

To enable secuity annotations on the controllers you should declare <security:global-method-security .../> in the context where controllers are declared, that is in rva-servlet.xml.

Answer 2

Indeed, you need to redefine in the config file which is also used for your controllers. In Spring Roo this is webmvc-config.xml. When configuring security with Roo, the config file applicationContext-security.xml is initially configured to enable those annotations. This was a little confusing...