Integrating Struts 2 with Spring Security

Let's first set up a Struts 2 application and integrate Spring Security with it.

Getting ready

• Eclipse Indigo or higher version
• JBoss as server
• Struts 2 JARs: 2.1.x
• Spring-core JARs 3.1.4. Release and Spring-Security 3.1.4.Release
• Struts 2 Spring plugin jar

How to do it...

In this section, we will learn how to set up the Struts 2 application with form-based Spring Security:

1. In your Eclipse IDE, create a dynamic web project and name it Spring_Security_Struts2.
2. Create a source folder at src/main/java.
3. Create a struts.xml file under the source folder src/main/java.
4. To integrate Struts 2 with the Spring application, add the application-context.xml file reference here.
5. Add the Struts filter mapping in web.xml. Spring listener also needs to be added to the web.xml file. The listener entry should be above the Struts 2 filter entry.
6. The contextLoaderListener will tell the servletcontainer about the springcontextLoader and it will track events. This also allows the...