Spring Security with Hibernate using UserDetailsService with Derby database

So far we have seen Hibernate and Spring security with various authentication providers. In this section we will use Hibernate to retrieve users and authorities from the database.

For that we are going to implement the UserDetailsService interface and implement a method in the interface. To begin we need to create entity classes for users and roles.

We also moved the @preAuthorize annotation to the controller class.

Getting ready

• Create a new class which implements the UserDetailsService interface and add the Bean definition to the application-security.xml file

• Edit the application-security.xml file

• Use the @preAuthorize annotation in controller

• In the horror database add the tables USERS and USER_ROLE

• Insert role ROLE_EDITOR and users named ravi and ravi123

How to do it...

The following steps are used to integrate Spring Security authentication with Hibernate by implementing the UserDetailsService interface that interacts...