Spring Security Java Config

Question

I\'m trying to use JavaConfig instead of XML configuration for Spring Security. I would like to use @PreAuthorization for declaring access rights.

My Sp

Answer 1

As NimChimpsky notes, Spring 3.2.0.RELEASE requires a configuration update.

Using this configuration, I was getting exactly the same exception as the OP, but only about half the time. The other half of the time the app started up just fine. I assume that there's some kind of race condition.

Originally I was pulling the security configuration in using @Import on my root configuration:

@Configuration
@Import(SecurityConfig.class)
... other annotations ...
public class RootConfig {
   ...
}

When I replaced that with

public class WebAppInit extends AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer {

    @Override
    protected Class[] getRootConfigClasses() {
        return new Class[] { RootConfig.class, SecurityConfig.class };
    }
}

the problem went away. Didn't dive into the reasons why, so I can't speak to that, but you might give it a try.