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.

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Answer 1

After doing more research on this problem I came to the following conclusion/solution. I'm not sure if it's 100% correct..but it works.

I put all of my configuration in the dispatcher-servlet.xml file. So instead of having a disptacher-servlet.xml and application-context.xml. The dispatcher-servlet.xml is loaded by the application (contextConfigLocation). Within the dispatcher-servlet.xml I import my security-context.xml and datasource-context.xml. Afer that, everything works.