JSF with form-based Spring Security

In this section we will implement the form-based authentication with JSF and Spring Security. Integrating Apache MyFaces with Spring Security is not as simple as Struts 2 integration.

It needs a work around. The /j_spring_security method can't be understood by ApacheMyfaces. The work around is to create a custom login method in our Managed Bean class. We will use the JSF external context class to pass the authentication request to the Spring Security Framework.

Getting ready

• Create a new project in you Eclipse IDE: JSF_Spring_Security_Chapter_3_Recipe2
• Do the configurations as shown in the following screenshot
• Create a package: com.packt.jsf.beans

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to integrate JSF with Spring Security to implement form-based authentication:

1. Create a web project in Eclipse:
   
2. Create a Credential Manager Bean:

   This bean has all the properties of a form-based authentication bean and customized login method ();

   The j_username and j_password...