problems with enabling spring security in spring mvc

Question

I'm trying to enable Spring Security 2.5 in my spring app but am running into configuration problems. I've followed a few examples and have done what they are doing, but I think something else I have configured is causing problems.

Here is my web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>onBoardingUI</display-name>


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

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>
       /WEB-INF/security-context.xml
    </param-value>
</context-param>

<!-- Enables Spring security -->
<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.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.FileCleanerCleanup</listener-class>
</listener>

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

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>testUI</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>testUI</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.form</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

<jsp-config>
    <taglib>
        <taglib-uri>/spring</taglib-uri>
        <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/spring-form.tld</taglib-location>
    </taglib>
</jsp-config>

and here is my security-context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    
    xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.xsd"&gt;

<security:global-method-security
    secured-annotations="enabled" />

<security:http auto-config="true">
    <!-- Restrict URLs based on role -->
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/login*"
        access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY" />
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/logoutSuccess*"
        access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY" />

    <security:intercept-url pattern="/css/main.css"
        access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY" />

    <security:intercept-url pattern="/**" access="ROLE_USER" />

    <!-- Override default login and logout pages -->
    <security:form-login login-page="/login.html"
        login-processing-url="/login.html" default-target-url="/index.jsp"
        authentication-failure-url="/login.jsp?login_error=1" />
    <security:logout logout-url="/logout"
        logout-success-url="/login.html" />
</security:http>

<security:authentication-provider>
    <security:jdbc-user-service
        data-source-ref="dataSource" />


</security:authentication-provider>

The war fails to deploy and this is all that is in the log:

Feb 16, 2010 11:46:29 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart

This is obviously something causing my listener to fail, but I'm not sure why.

This is deploying to Tomcat 6.0.20 and Spring MVC 2.5 with Spring Security 2.5.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Could it be that your 'datasource' bean isn't defined in the security-context.xml file?

Also check that the security-context.xml is in the correct place inside the WAR - according to your web.xml is should be at /WEB-INF/security-context.xml - check the exploded directory in tomcat to see if it is indeed there.

HTH

Answer 2

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>testUI</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value></param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>