Spring Security with Wicket – Spring form-based database authentication

In our previous recipe we found the Wicket 6.9 is very much compatible with Spring Security and it was very easy to integrate. All we did was to add spring dependency and we configured the applicationContext.xml file.

In this section we shall use the Spring form to do authentication. We expect the Spring form to show up in place of the dialog box and do the authentication for us.

Getting ready

• Create a Maven Wicket project: spring-security-wicket_springform.

• Update the pom.xml file with Spring dependency.

• Create an applicationContext.xml file. It's mandatory to name it as applicationContext or else we will get error messages in the console.

• Edit the web.xml with Spring listeners.

• Create a database details.xml file and add the database details.

• Add the file as a context parameter to the Spring listener.

How to do it...

Edit the applicationContext.xml file using the following code:

<global-method-security pre-post-annotations...