Question

I am using spring mvc and spring security. In my security-app-context.xml I have:

<authentication-manager>
    <authentication-provider user-service-ref="MyUserDetailsService"/>
</authentication-manager>

And therefore I need to configure MyUserDetailsService in this security-app-context.xml file. So I added:

<beans:bean id="MyUserDetailsService"
            class="my.web.authentication.GreenWheelsUserDetailsService">
    <beans:property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>
    <beans:property name="userDao" ref="userDao"/>
</beans:bean>

But this cause me to add transactionManager and userDao beans to this file too! So I added:

<beans:bean id="transactionManager" class="my.dataAccess.hibernate.HibernateTransactionManager"/>
    <beans:bean id="userDao" class="my.dataAccess.hibernate.HibernateUserDao"/>

But now I want to add anothr beans for other DAOs. I prefer to put all my beans in different file then the security-app-context.xml file. How do I do that and keep the authentication-manager section correct?

Answer 1

You can use import:

<beans:import resource="beans.xml" />