Best way for a Spring MVC web app to detect a brute force attack?

Question

Are there any features specifically in Spring 3.0 MVC that would help implementing detection of a brute force attack on the authentication/login page of a web app?

Answer 1

Also consider adding captcha to your login page, reCAPTCHA from Google is very easy to integrate to any application. Here is documentation for using it with Java/JSP