Hello all,

I'm fairly new to Spring (and Spring Security) - currently reading the unofficial book. (Excuses in advance )

I tried setting up ACL for a dummy application, however - it does not seems to work ... I want to make use of the hasPermission() checks and SpEL.

However, when I deploy this configuration/application on Tomcat7, I receive a NullPointer Exception.

My application context: http://pastebin.com/tkHgbKWM
The stacktrace: http://pastebin.com/6M4gFV4H

Any ideas? What am I doing wrong? What am I missing?

Thank you in advance,
Maarten