I have the following spring security configuration.
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd">
<!-- For S2OAuth endpoints -->
<http pattern="/oauth/token"
create-session="stateless"
authentication-manager-ref="clientAuthenticationManager"
entry-point-ref="oauthAuthenticationEntryPoint"
xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security">
<intercept-url pattern="/oauth/token" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY" />
<anonymous enabled="false" />
<http-basic entry-point-ref="oauthAuthenticationEntryPoint" />
<!-- include this only if you need to authenticate clients via request parameters -->
<custom-filter ref="clientCredentialsTokenEndpointFilter" before="BASIC_AUTH_FILTER" />
</http>
<http use-expressions="true">
<!-- Authentication policy -->
<form-login login-page="/signin" login-processing-url="/signin/authenticate" authentication-failure-url="/signin?error=1" />
<logout logout-url="/signout" delete-cookies="JSESSIONID" />
<!-- Authorization policy definition: TODO consider replacing with @Secured on @Controllers -->
<intercept-url pattern="/" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/favicon.ico" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/members/**" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/groups/**" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/pubsub/**" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/resources/**" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/signup" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
<intercept-url pattern="/signin" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
<intercept-url pattern="/signin/*" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
<intercept-url pattern="/reset" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
<!-- TODO this would probably be better mapped to simply /invite?token={token} but not able to vary security policy here based on presence of a request parameter. Consider @Secured on @Controller. -->
<intercept-url pattern="/invite/accept" access="permitAll" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
<!-- TODO this should be restricted to admin users only -->
<intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" access="permitAll" />
<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="isAuthenticated()" requires-channel="#{environment['application.secureChannel']}" />
<custom-filter ref="resourceServerFilter" before="EXCEPTION_TRANSLATION_FILTER" />
</http>
<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
<authentication-provider ref="usernamePasswordAuthenticationProvider" />
</authentication-manager>
<bean id="accessDecisionManager" class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.UnanimousBased" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans">
<constructor-arg>
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.security.oauth2.provider.vote.ScopeVoter" />
<bean class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.RoleVoter" />
<bean class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.AuthenticatedVoter" />
</list>
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
<!-- Remember Me -->
<http>
<remember-me services-ref="rememberMeServices" key="myRememberMeKey" />
</http>
<bean id="jdbcRememberMeRepository" class="com.springsource.greenhouse.rememberme.JdbcRememberMeRepository" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"/>
<bean id="coreUserDetailsService" class="com.springsource.greenhouse.rememberme.CoreUserDetailsService" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"/>
<bean id="rememberMeServices" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.PersistentTokenBasedRememberMeServices" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans">
<property name="tokenRepository" ref="jdbcRememberMeRepository" />
<property name="userDetailsService" ref="coreUserDetailsService" />
<property name="key" value="myRememberMeKey" />
<property name="alwaysRemember" value="true" />
</bean>
<!-- For S2OAuth endpoints -->
<authentication-manager id="clientAuthenticationManager" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security">
<authentication-provider user-service-ref="clientDetailsUserService" />
</authentication-manager>
<beans:bean id="clientDetailsUserService" class="org.springframework.security.oauth2.provider.client.ClientDetailsUserDetailsService">
<beans:constructor-arg ref="clientDetails" />
</beans:bean>
<beans:bean id="oauthAuthenticationEntryPoint" class="org.springframework.security.oauth2.provider.error.OAuth2AuthenticationEntryPoint">
<beans:property name="realmName" value="greenhouseApi" />
</beans:bean>
<beans:import resource="security-oauth-provider.xml" />
</beans:beans>
I am getting the following exception.
Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: No AuthenticationEntryPoint could be established. Please make sure you have a login mechanism configured through the namespace (such as form-login) or specify a custom AuthenticationEntryPoint with the 'entry-point-ref' attribute
Offending resource: class path resource [com/springsource/greenhouse/config/security.xml]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68)
...
I am new to spring security. I don’t know the cause of this exception.
You cannot add your remember-me declaration into new empty http element. Use some other existed http element where authentication entry point is already configured (for example via form-login element):