Question

I’m new to Spring security, so I don’t know how to get it setup and configured in my web application. Does anyone know of a good reference that explains the basics of Spring security and describes common usage scenarios? Ideally I’d like to find a tutorial that describes:

• setup and configuration for authentication and authorization
• using Hibernate to fetch authorities
• required dependencies

Answer 1

Read:

http://static.springsource.org/spring-security/site/docs/3.1.x/reference/ns-config.html

Sections 2.1 to 2.2.4 should have everything you need to get started.