Basic authentication with GWT and Spring Security

We will demonstrate Basic authentication in GWT. It's very similar to the basic authentication that we are going doing in later recipes. We will be editing the applicationContext.xml.

Getting ready

• Create a sample GWT project

• Add the spring related JARs in the build path

• Add the Spring Security related JARs

• Add the applicationContext.xml file

• Edit the web.xml file as shown in the previous section

• Also add the spring related JARs in the web-inf lib folder

How to do it...

Edit the applicationContext.xml file:

<http auto-config="true" >
  <intercept-url pattern="/basicgwtauth/**"
     access="ROLE_AUTHOR"/>
  <intercept-url pattern="/basicgwtauth/**"
     access="ROLE_AUTHOR"/>
  <intercept-url pattern="/**/*.html" access="ROLE_AUTHOR"/>
  <intercept-url pattern="/**"
     access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY" />
  <http-basic />
</http>
<authentication-manager>
  <authentication-provider>
    &lt...