Question

I have generated a spring project using Roo, and used the security setup addon to add in the spring security. The security works fine on Tomcat 7, but am running into the following problem when trying to deploy to Websphere 7.0.0.19. I’m currently using Spring Security 3.1.0.RELEASE. I’ve seen other projects use the Spring DelegatingFilterProxy just fine within Websphere. Anybody have any ideas?

Error from StackTrace:

E org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader initWebApplicationContext Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.filterChainProxy': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: A universal match pattern ('/**') is defined  before other patterns in the filter chain, causing them to be ignored. Please check the ordering in your <security:http> namespace or FilterChainProxy bean configuration

applicationContext-security.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" 
    xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
    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-3.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd"> 

    <!-- HTTP security configurations -->
    <http auto-config="true" use-expressions="true" >
        <form-login login-processing-url="/resources/j_spring_security_check" login-page="/login" authentication-failure-url="/login?login_error=t" />
        <logout logout-url="/resources/j_spring_security_logout" />
        <!-- Configure these elements to secure URIs in your application -->
        <intercept-url pattern="/login" access="permitAll" />
        <intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN')" />
        <intercept-url pattern="/jobtypes/**" access="isAuthenticated()" />
        <intercept-url pattern="/tests/**" access="permitAll" />
        <!-- Websphere Problem: IllegalArgumentException: A universal match pattern ('/**') is defined  before other patterns in the filter chain -->
        <intercept-url pattern="/resources/**" access="permitAll" />
        <intercept-url pattern="/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_USER')" />
    </http>

    <!-- Configure Authentication mechanism -->
    <beans:bean name="myCompanyAuthenticationProvider" class="edu.mycompany.project.security.MyCompanyAuthenticationProvider" />
    <authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
        <authentication-provider ref="myCompanyAuthenticationProvider" />
    </authentication-manager>   
</beans:beans>

Thanks,

Answer 1

For others reading this (and looking for an answer), the issue was logged as SEC-2034 and determined to be invalid. The problem is occurring due to the configuration being picked up twice.