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Installing Spring Security On Spring MVC Project

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These are steps required to install Spring Security for a form authentication implementation on a Spring MVC project.

  1. Maven Dependencies. 

    
        org.springframework.security
        spring-security-core
        3.1.4.RELEASE


        org.springframework.security
        spring-security-config
        3.1.4.RELEASE


        org.springframework.security
        spring-security-web
        3.1.4.RELEASE
  2. Add Spring Security filter to web.xml 
    

        springSecurityFilterChain
        org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy



        springSecurityFilterChain
        /*
  3. Add a security-context.xml spring beans config file. You can place all your security config on root application context xml but separating it would produce clearer code without namespace prefix clutter
  4. Add basic HTTP form authentication and provider as seen on Spring reference manual