Spring: Developing Java Applications for the Enterprise

Securing web application's URL access

HttpServletRequest is the starting point of a Java web application. To configure web security, you need to set up a filter that provides various security features. To enable Spring Security, add filter and their mapping in the web.xml file.

The first step – web.xml

The first step is to configure DelegatingFilterProxy instance in web.xml while securing the web application's URL access with Spring Security.

In the web.xml file, you'll find the following code:

<!—Spring Security -->
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
   <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> ...