Every time you use Acegi
December 3rd, 2007A fairy dies.
The sad thing is there really isn’t anything better around. Here’s hoping the Spring guys whip it into shape now that its “part of the Spring stack.”
Update: Ben Alex describes a much simplified Spring Security 2.0-M1 release! Looking forward to trying it out. While Miami is sounding quite nice compared to the local Michigan weather, I’m not sure I’ll be able to make it down the Spring Experience for the session. 
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:44 pm
I’m always wondering why folks seem so interested in integrating acegi and wicket when its so much simpler to just extend AuthenticatedApplication and implement a method or 2 and sprinkle some annotations around…
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Acegi is an abomination of stupid jargons and disgusting configurations.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:49 am
Here is to the constructive criticism.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:59 am
if you need to write 10 verbose and hard to grasp configuration beans for making Basic Authentication, it means there is a serious problem.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Completely agree here with Jose. The fact that I need to write *180* lines of XML to configure Acegi for a simple simple user authentication in front of a webapp means that something is eriously wrong. There should be default profiles which configure things out of the box and provide minimal switches so users can’t screw things up.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Also, Mr Anonymous: its my blog and I’ll bitch when I want to!
December 4th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
We’re working on it!
You should come along to my talk next week at The Spring Experience, where I’m showing off the new Spring Security 2.0 M1 features (which exist even as I write this). A single web filter is all you need, plus . That will give you form login, BASIC auth, remember-me, exception translation, servlet API integration, and a logout URL. Heck, you don’t even need to write your login page if you don’t want to (it renders one for you). Need annotation support? Just add and it’s done. What about a database-backed authentication repository? How about . The days of 180 line XML files are over.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Drats! My comment was stripped of its XML. It was meant to be:
< http autoConfig=”true” >
< annotation-driven / >
< jdbc-user-service dataSource=”dataSource” >
December 7th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I have to admit I have wrestled plenty with acegi, and am super happy to see it being simplified.
Most importantly though, congrats on the original post. That was *funny*. I am still chuckling about it a couple hours later, I guess you need to use acegi to appreciate it fully. Thanks for the laugh.
December 10th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I agree that acegi is a mess, I also have to say that a month after I integrated it I need my project to authenticated to active directory. All I had to do was add another authentication provider, I thought that was pretty slick. I will have to look into the wicket authentication in the future…
Also Dan thanks for backin’ me up on the goodness that is the GWT. I hear you hang out with my friend Zan, we all should catch a beer sometime, I would love to talk to you about a project I just deployed using xfire.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Acegi is really mess.
I spend at least 2-3 days to get it working with lots of XML.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:48 am
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May 18th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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June 10th, 2008 at 5:30 am
[...] Security (formerly Acegi Security). As we all happen to know by now, every time you used Acegi, a fairy died. The configuration was just horrible (someone compared it to strangling a dragon with bare hands, [...]
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
[...] Het is inmiddels al even geleden dat Acegi Security gerebrand is naar Spring Security. Acegi stond bekend om de erg lastige configuratie. Een gebruiker heeft zelfs gezegd dat: “every time I use Acegi a fairy dies..” [...]