spring not enforcing method security annotations

Question

I\'m some what lost as to why spring isn\'t enforcing the @Secured(\"ROLE_USER\") on my service interface. My controllers are established using annotations.

An exam

Answer 1

In my case, the exact location of this statement:

proved to be very important. Make sure that you put it after you declare which classes should be scanned and used as controllers.

This is the way to make sure that the @Secured annotations will also get into the game