Use static weaving with spring-security

Question

Colleagues, In the spring security documentation I met following notion:

If you want to secure instances which are not created by Spring (using the

Answer 1

There is an Aspectj sample in the Spring Security codebase. It compiles against the spring-security-aspects module and then uses:

<global-method-security secured-annotations="enabled" mode="aspectj" />

to enable secured annotations. The code is very simple - it is really just a set of JUnit tests. If you take a look, you'll see that these include tests for both Spring-bean instances and instances created using the new operator.

If you want to know how spring-security-aspects works, check out the aspect source.