spring not enforcing method security annotations

Question

I\'m some what lost as to why spring isn\'t enforcing the @Secured(\"ROLE_USER\") on my service interface. My controllers are established using annotations.

An exam

Answer 1

Do you have the statement

in the same configuration file as the one you defined the MyServiceManager bean? I had the same problem until I turned on debug for org.springframework, and noticed that spring security was only applied on the same file as the ones where global-method-security was defined in.