Problem solved. Thanks anyway. The solution turned out to be to not use the documentation from the Spring Security team (it assumes background knowledge a newcomer isn't likely to have) and use the following instead:
1) Sample for integration: (http://idms.rutgers.edu/cas/sample_spring_security.shtml), 2) Instructions on how to write a custom UserDetailsService (http://www.codercorp.com/blog/java/writing-custom-userdetailsservice-for-spring-security.html). In the end it was the usual problem we developers face have when we try to write tutorials for our own code... we know too much and assume that even newcomers have a background in all the same topics and technologies as we do. I hope the above two links help others trying to integrate Spring Security with CAS. They are pretty rough, but they work with only a few tweaks. b. ________________________________ From: Scott Battaglia [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 10:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [cas-user] Calling CAS 3.3.1 from Spring Security 2.0 -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
