Spring security + Struts 1.2 integration

Question

I have a application in which I used struts1.2 and ejb2.1 now I want to add spring security using LDAP server in it. How to integrate Spring Security with struts1.2?

Answer 1

Integration shouldn't be different than any other web app.

1. You need the spring-security dependencies either the jars or the maven dependencies. I'll post the maven dependencies, if you don't use maven you can look the jars up from here: mvn browser

    <properties> <spring.version>3.0.1.RELEASE</spring.version> </properties> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId> <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId> <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId> <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId> <artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> 

2. You need the FilterChainProxy defined in your web.xml :

    <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> 

3. You need your spring context locations defined in your web.xml :

    <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>WEB-INF/spring-contexts/myContextConfig.xml</param-value> </context-param> 

4. You need the ContextLoaderListener defined in your web.xml :

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

5. Finally for a basic security config you can have a look at the petclinic tutotial app .

That should do it.