create new spring annotation

Question

I'm developing an application in Spring which has numerous methods in the controller, and are mapped to various URL using @RequestMapping.

Some of these methods (and hence url) are accessible to some user roles, and not to others. Can I create annotations, and annotate these methods so that only privileged users have access to right methods, while not to the others?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I am not sure if creating new annotations is what you really need. You could probably use Spring Security and its annotations. Please take a look here to see if it is what you are looking for.

Answer 2

You can use Spring Security and its annotations, restrict access to some methods. This Blog post show some features of annotations used with Spring Security 3.

Have a look at this question and answer, to see how you build your own annotations on top of spring security.

See also the documentation of Spring Security 3.1, Chapter Expression-Based Access Control.