Maven cannot compile Spring Security demo project

Question

I have a Maven demo project for which I use some Spring Security features.

I could import the project fine into Eclipse STS and the editor shows no error related to dependencies.

But a Maven command to compile on the command line fails.

I get the following errors:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project learnintouch-web: Compilation failure: Compilation failure:
[ERROR] /home/stephane/dev/java/projects/learnintouch-web/src/main/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/web/config/WebSecurityConfiguration.java:[7,78] package org.springframework.security.config.annotation.authentication.builders does not exist
[ERROR] /home/stephane/dev/java/projects/learnintouch-web/src/main/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/web/config/WebSecurityConfiguration.java:[8,67] package org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders does not exist
[ERROR] /home/stephane/dev/java/projects/learnintouch-web/src/main/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/web/config/WebSecurityConfiguration.java:[9,72] package org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration does not exist
[ERROR] /home/stephane/dev/java/projects/learnintouch-web/src/main/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/web/config/WebSecurityConfiguration.java:[10,72] package org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration does not exist
[ERROR] /home/stephane/dev/java/projects/learnintouch-web/src/main/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/web/config/WebSecurityConfiguration.java:[19,47] cannot find symbol
[ERROR] symbol: class WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
[ERROR] /home/stephane/dev/java/projects/learnintouch-web/src/main/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/web/config/WebSecurityConfiguration.java:[15,2] cannot find symbol
[ERROR] symbol: class EnableWebSecurity
[ERROR] /home/stephane/dev/java/projects/learnintouch-web/src/main/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/web/config/WebSecurityConfiguration.java:[25,34] cannot find symbol
[ERROR] symbol:   class AuthenticationManagerBuilder
[ERROR] location: class com.thalasoft.learnintouch.web.config.WebSecurityConfiguration
[ERROR] /home/stephane/dev/java/projects/learnintouch-web/src/main/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/web/config/WebSecurityConfiguration.java:[24,9] method does not override or implement a method from a supertype

Here is in the pom.xml the Spring Security dependencies:

<org.springframework.security.version>3.2.4.RELEASE</org.springframework.security.version>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
  <version>${org.springframework.security.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
  <version>${org.springframework.security.version}</version>
  <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
  <version>${org.springframework.security.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
  <version>${org.springframework.security.version}</version>
</dependency>

Answer 1

I resolved this by removing this line from pom.xml on the spring-security-config artifact:

   <scope>runtime</scope>

Answer 2

You need to add spring security library manually.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
    <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Answer 3

I could solve this by adding the latest possible compatible versions of springframework.version and springsecurity.version.

Ex:

<properties>
        <springframework.version>5.1.1.RELEASE</springframework.version>
        <springsecurity.version>5.1.1.RELEASE</springsecurity.version> 
</properties>

Also in the dependencies, I added the below:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>


<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Now it worked fine.