Install Maven

This project usesMaven as a build tool. We recommend you to install Maven 2.0.8 or greater before trying the following.

Check out the source code

To checkout Spring Security from SVN, see ourSVN Usage page.

Building with Maven

Often people reading this document just want to see if Spring Security will work for their projects. They want to deploy a sample application, and perhaps play around with the configuration a bit to see how it works. Assuming you've already checked out the code from subversion, start up a command prompt and execute the following commands from the directory containing the project source:

        mvn install
        cd samples/contacts
        mvn jetty:run

This should build the framework library jars, install them to your local Maven repository and run the "contacts" sample application (JDK 1.5 or later is required). You should then be able to point your browser at to use the application.