Recently I wrote about getting started with Spring Security. In that, I used XML configurations for spring security. As a Java developer, I normally prefer Java configuration with Spring than XML. So here is how we can move from XML configuration to Java configuration.

Firstly I tell my web.xml that I want to use Java file based configuration and provide configuration class.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
    version="2.4">

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
        <param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>spring.profiles.active</param-name>
        <param-value>javaee</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>com.myapp.config.MyConfig</param-value>
    </context-param>


    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

    <filter>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
        <dispatcher>ERROR</dispatcher>
        <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    </filter-mapping>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>dispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
            <param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>com.myapp.config.MyConfig</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>dispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/service/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

Here is a simple contoller path which I need to secure

package com.myapp.test;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/sample")
public class SampleService {
	@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "/hello")
	public ModelAndView LepService(@PathVariable("id") String id)
			throws ServletException, IOException {

		ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("hello");
		// Do something here
		return mv;
	}
}

As you can see this simply redirects to hello view (hello.jsp).

And here the configuration file.

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@EnableWebSecurity
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.myapp.test")
public class MyConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

	@Bean
	public UrlBasedViewResolver urlBasedViewResolver() {
		UrlBasedViewResolver res = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
		res.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
		res.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/");
		res.setSuffix(".jsp");

		return res;
	}

	@Override
	public void configure(WebSecurity web) throws Exception {
		web.ignoring().antMatchers("/resources/**");
	}

	@Autowired
	public void configureGlobal(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth)
			throws Exception {
		auth.inMemoryAuthentication().withUser("user").password("password")
				.roles("USER");
	}

	@Override
	protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
		http.authorizeRequests().antMatchers("/").permitAll()
				.antMatchers("/sample/**").hasRole("USER").anyRequest().authenticated()
				.and().formLogin();
	}
}

In last post I wrote about implementing a simple authentication and authorization code using filters to provide security to your web application.

Well, Spring security is there to make our life easier.

Lets take a very simple example of hello world application.

Simply create a new web application (in eclipse dynamic web application, cover to maven application to use maven).

Modify Web.xml

<servlet>
<servlet-name>controlServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.spring.test.HelloWorld</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>controlServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

And create HelloWorld.java

package com.spring.test;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;


@WebServlet (urlPatterns ={"/hello" } )
public class HelloWorld extends HttpServlet {

@Override
public void doGet (HttpServletRequest request , HttpServletResponse response){
try {
response.getWriter( ).write( "Hello World" ) ;
} catch(IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace( ) ;
}
}
}

Only dependency added to maven

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
</dependency>

Build using maven and execute on any webserver. The /hello url will show a Hello World Message.

Lets add some security to this application now using Spring Security.

Tell your maven about Spring Jars

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>

Add to web.xml

<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/spring-security.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>

<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>
org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy
</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

And create spring-security.xml inside WEB-INF

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd">
<security:http auto-config="true">
<security:intercept-url pattern="/hello" access="ROLE_ADMIN" />
</security:http>
<security:authentication-manager>
<security:authentication-provider>
<security:user-service>
<security:user authorities="ROLE_ADMIN" name="kamal" password="kamal" />
<security:user authorities="ROLE_ADMIN" name="admin" password="admin" />
</security:user-service>
</security:authentication-provider>
</security:authentication-manager>
</beans>