Cannot use Spring LDAP with Spring Security

java, maven-2, spring, spring-ldap, spring-security

Solution

A dependency of type `pom` won't provide any classes. Use this dependency instead:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.ldap</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-ldap-core</artifactId>
  <version>1.3.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

This artifact contains the `o.s.l.c.s.BaseLdapPathContextSource` class which is currently missing.

Problem

I want to authenticate users against our AD so I understand that I need spring security and spring ldap. Here is what is in my POM: ``` <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId> <artifactId>org.springframework.security.core</artifactId> <version>3.0.0.RELEASE</version> </dependency> ... <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.ldap</groupId> <artifactId>spring-ldap</artifactId> <version>1.3.0.RELEASE</version> <type>pom</type> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> ``` Here are the respective entries from my secruity-context: ``` <ldap-authentication-provider user-dn-pattern="CN=0},OU=CAN,OU=NOT,OU=TELL,OU=YOU"/> .. <!-- LDAP Security Configuration --> <ldap-server url="ldap://10.9.1.1:389/DC=TELL,DC=YOU"/> ``` However when I run my application using: ``` mvn jetty:run ``` I get following error: ``` If you are using LDAP with Spring Security, please ensure that you include the spring-ldap jar file in your application; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.ldap.core.support.BaseLdapPathContextSource: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.ldap.core.support.BaseLdapPathContextSource at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) at org.codehaus.classworlds.RealmClassLoader.loadClassDirect(RealmClassLoader.java:195) at org.codehaus.classworlds.DefaultClassRealm.loadClass(DefaultClassRealm.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.DefaultClassRealm.loadClass(DefaultClassRealm.java:274) at org.codehaus.classworlds.RealmClassLoader.loadClass(RealmClassLoader.java:214) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoader.java:375) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoader.java:337) at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:258) at org.springframework.security.config.ldap.ContextSourceSettingPostProcessor.postProcessBeanFactory(ContextSourceSettingPostProcessor.java:33) ```

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