Referencing Spring Security configuration within Spring 3.1 Java Config

Question

I recently switched a majority of my Spring configuration to use the code based config in Spring 3.1. However, now that I\'ve switched, my Spring Security is not working correc

Answer 1

Thank you everyone for the above hints concerning a springSecurityFilterChain when Java configuration of Spring is used. As I've worked along to apply these hints to fix a comparable error in my own code, I noted that the Spring documentation for org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer (the interface implemented by AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer) has the following relevant "Caveat":

web.xml versioning

WEB-INF/web.xml and WebApplicationInitializer use are not mutually exclusive; for example, web.xml can register one servlet, and a WebApplicationInitializer can register another. An initializer can even modify registrations performed in web.xml through methods such as ServletContext.getServletRegistration(String).

However, if WEB-INF/web.xml is present in the application, its version attribute must be set to "3.0" or greater, otherwise ServletContainerInitializer bootstrapping will be ignored by the servlet container.

I point this out because I noticed that your web.xml version noted above is still 2.5.