Why use Spring Security (Formerly known as Acegi)?

Spring Secuity Security is a pretty complete solution for all kinds of security needs. It is very configurable and supports many authentication sources out of the box. These include: database queries, LDAP queries and CAS. It can be a bit complex to set up, but following the how to below should get you started quickly.

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See the examples below for how to setup your project.

1. Wicket 1.3.5, Spring 2.5.5, Spring Security 2.0.4 on JDK 5.0
2. Wicket 1.2.6, Spring 2.0.5, Acegi 1.0.2 on JDK 1.4

Example Wicket 1.3.5

This example uses Maven 2 for dependency management.

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