Struts 2 application with basic Spring Security

In this section we will demonstrate basic Spring Security authentication with Struts 2. We will create a sample Struts 2 application and add Spring Security features to the action to make it secured. Only authenticated authorized users can access it.

Getting ready

• Update the Applicationcontext-security.xml file
• Create a new dynamic project in Eclipse: Struts2_Spring_BASIC_Security_Recipe2

How to do it...

Perform the following steps for integrating the Struts 2 application with Spring Security to implement basic authentication:

1. Modify the applicationcontext-security.xml file to support basic security:

   Applicationcontext-security.xml:

   <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
      xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
      http://www.springframework...