No bean named springSecurityFilterChain is defined

spring, spring-mvc, spring-security

Solution

Make sure that the security xml is loaded by the ContextLoaderListener and not the DispatcherServlet. The DelegatingFilterProxy will only look into the root applicationcontext (which is loaded by the ContextLoaderListener) for the bean to delegate to. (see spring's documentation here)

In case you only have one dispatcher servlet, you can define your application context globally and leave the dispatcher servlet parameter empty.

Example:

   <!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml,
                     /WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <!-- Processes application requests -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>mmasgisServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value></param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

Problem

I need to integrate spring security with a small application built with spring 3.1.1, following this tutorial at the point 3.2.1, got this error trace: ``` gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart Grave: Exception starting filter springSecurityFilterChain org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'springSecurityFilterChain' is defined at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanDefinition(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:529) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getMergedLocalBeanDefinition(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1095) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:277) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1097) at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.initDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:326) at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.initFilterBean(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:236) at org.springframework.web.filter.GenericFilterBean.init(GenericFilterBean.java:194) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:281) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:262) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4775) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5452) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:656) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1635) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal Grave: Error filterStart gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal Grave: Context [/mmasgis] startup failed due to previous errors gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log Informazioni: Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext INFO : org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext - Closing Root WebApplicationContext: startup date [Fri Jan 31 15:08:40 CET 2014]; root of context hierarchy INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Destroying singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@204ed39b: defining beans [dataSource]; root of factory hierarchy gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesJdbc Grave: The web application [/mmasgis] registered the JDBC driver [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver] but failed to unregister it when the web application was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered. gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesThreads Grave: The web application [/mmasgis] appears to have started a thread named [Abandoned connection cleanup thread] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely to create a memory leak. gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory Informazioni: Deploying web application directory /home/arpho/programmi/sts/springsource/vfabric-tc-server-developer-2.9.3.RELEASE/base-instance/webapps/manager gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory Informazioni: Deploying web application directory /home/arpho/programmi/sts/springsource/vfabric-tc-server-developer-2.9.3.RELEASE/base-instance/webapps/ROOT gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start Informazioni: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"] gen 31, 2014 3:08:41 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start Informazioni: Server startup in 2497 ms ``` I have referred other threads but with no solution. Can someone correct me where is the problem in the configuration? Thanks for the time. This is my `web.xml`: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"> <!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters --> <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml</param-value> </context-param> <!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters --> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> </listener> <!-- Processes application requests --> <servlet> <servlet-name>mmasgisServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>mmasgisServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <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> </filter-mapping> </web-app> ``` This is my `root-context.xml`: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="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.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd"> <!-- Root Context: defines shared resources visible to all other web components --> <bean id="dataSource" name="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"> <property name="username" value="root"></property> <property name="password" value="password"></property> <property name="driverClassName"> <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value> </property> <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mmasgis"> </property> </bean> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd"> </beans> </beans> ```

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