Spring Security 3.1 And The Right Jars - spring-security

Question

I'm using Spring 3.1 and I am doing LDAP for the first time.
Here is my *-security.xml:
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd">
<http auto-config="true">
<intercept-url pattern="/welcome*" access="ROLE_USER" />
<form-login login-page="/login" default-target-url="/welcome"
authentication-failure-url="/loginfailed" />
<logout logout-success-url="/logout" />
</http>
<ldap-server url = "ldap://ldap-east.abc.acme.org:636/o=acme.org" />
<authentication-manager>
<ldap-authentication-provider user-dn-pattern="uid={0},ou=people"/>
</authentication-manager>
</beans:beans>
I started with these security related jars in my lib:
spring-security-ldap-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-config-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-core-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-taglibs-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-web-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
And I got this error message:
org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException:
Couldn't locate: org.springframework.ldap.core.support.BaseLdapPathContextSource.
If you are using LDAP with Spring Security,
please ensure that you include the spring-ldap jar file in your application;
nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.springframework.ldap.core.support.BaseLdapPathContextSource
So, I added more jars to lib to be this set of security files:
spring-ldap-core-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar
spring-ldap-core-tiger-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-ldap-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-config-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-core-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-taglibs-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
spring-security-web-3.1.0.RELEASE.jar
That got me in deeper with even MORE error messages:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.filterChains':
Cannot resolve reference to bean 'org.springframework.security.web.DefaultSecurityFilterChain#0'
while setting bean property 'sourceList' with key [0];
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.web.DefaultSecurityFilterChain#0':
Cannot resolve reference to bean 'org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter#0'
while setting constructor argument with key [2];
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter#0':
Cannot resolve reference to bean 'org.springframework.security.authentication.ProviderManager#0' w
hile setting bean property 'authenticationManager';
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.authentication.ProviderManager#0':
Cannot resolve reference to bean 'org.springframework.security.config.authentication.AuthenticationManagerFactoryBean#0'
while setting constructor argument; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.config.authentication.AuthenticationManagerFactoryBean#0':
FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.authenticationManager':
Cannot resolve reference to bean 'org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.LdapAuthenticationProvider#0'
while setting constructor argument with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.LdapAuthenticationProvider#0':
Cannot create inner bean '(inner bean)' of type [org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.BindAuthenticator]
while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name '(inner bean)#17': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'org.springframework.security.securityContextSource'
while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.securityContextSource':
Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException:
Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.security.ldap.DefaultSpringSecurityContextSource]:
Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundE
I'm catching up on a lot of things, learning Maven is on my list, but I am not there yet. Any tips on getting the right mix jars to do a basic LDAP authentication with Spring 3.1?
I tried loading the entire Spring 3.1.1 dist, the entire Spring LDAP 1.3.1 dist and the entire Spring Security 3.1.0 dist. I've got everything. So I am at a loss to see how this is a dependency issue, FWIW.

Answer 1

spring-security-config
spring-security-taglibs
spring-security-ldap
Those 3 should be enough and they will pull their dependendies if you are using maven or similar tool.
If not, you need to go through all 3 libs and copy all their dependencies as well in your classpath.

Answer 2

Check this thread Moved to Spring 3.1.1 from Spring 3.0.5 now my App does not work
As ryan-stewart states:
Blockquote spring-ldap isn't included with the base spring 3.1 distro. In fact, its versioning is completely separate, and it's presently at version 1.3.1.
You need to download the extra jars from here
All the credit goes to ryan-stewart