Spring Security 3 programmatically login

Question

I\'m creating a REST web service using spring and I need to implement login/logout functions in it. The url for the functions should be something like .../api/login and .../api/

Answer 1

If you're after the basic authentication manager, the following code will get it in your app without extra xml config:

@SuppressWarnings({"SpringJavaAutowiringInspection"})
@Resource(name = "org.springframework.security.authenticationManager")
private AuthenticationManager authenticationManager;