Spring Security exclude url patterns in security annotation configurartion

Question

I have spring web application with Spring security configured using java config approach. I want to exclude some URL patterns from authentication(eg: static resources etc..)

Answer 1

specifying the "antMatcher" before "authorizeRequests()" like below will restrict the authenticaiton to only those URLs specified in "antMatcher"

http.csrf().disable() .antMatcher("/apiurlneedsauth/**").authorizeRequests().