Spring Security on Websphere 7 throws Servlet Exception: Failed to initialize Filter

[nirmaljpatel]

I have an application bundled with Spring Security and it works perfectly when deployed on a Tomcat server.

However, when the same WAR is deployed to Websphere; application fails to start giving the following error.

javax.servlet.ServletException: [springSecurityFilterChain]: Could not be initialized.

The status of the application in Websphere shows deployed and started.

Using Spring Security 3.0.7 and Websphere 7.0.0.17

Here's my web.xml

<!-- Spring Security configuration Start-->
<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>
        /WEB-INF/app-servlet.xml,
        /WEB-INF/security-app-context.xml
    </param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<filter>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- Spring Security configuration End-->

I am using PreAuth Filter for Siteminder. Here's my security-app-context.xml:

 <http  use-expressions="true">
        <intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN')" />
        <intercept-url pattern="/403.jsp" access="permitAll" />
        <!-- Allow non-secure access to static resources  -->
        <intercept-url pattern="/css/**" filters="none" />
        <intercept-url pattern="/images/**" filters="none" />

        <custom-filter ref="siteminderFilter" position="PRE_AUTH_FILTER"/>

<!--        <form-login  /> -->
        <logout logout-success-url="/index.jsp"/>
    </http>

    <beans:bean id="siteminderFilter" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.preauth.RequestHeaderAuthenticationFilter">
        <beans:property name="principalRequestHeader" value="SM_USER"/>
        <beans:property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" />
        <beans:property name="exceptionIfHeaderMissing" value="false"/>
    </beans:bean>

    <beans:bean id="AdminUserDetailsService" class="com.fw.security.auth.MyUserDetailsService">
    </beans:bean>

    <beans:bean id="preauthAuthProvider" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.preauth.PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider">
        <beans:property name="preAuthenticatedUserDetailsService">
            <beans:bean id="userDetailsServiceWrapper" class="org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsByNameServiceWrapper">
                <beans:property name="userDetailsService" ref="AdminUserDetailsService"/>
            </beans:bean>
        </beans:property>
    </beans:bean>

    <authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
      <authentication-provider ref="preauthAuthProvider" />
    </authentication-manager>