spring not enforcing method security annotations

Question

I'm some what lost as to why spring isn't enforcing the @Secured("ROLE_USER") on my service interface. My controllers are established using annotations.

An example of my service Interface

public interface MyServiceManager {

    @Secured("ROLE_USER")
    public void delete(int cid);

    @RolesAllowed({"ROLE_USER"})
    public Contact getContact(int contactId);
}

my security-context:

<global-method-security   secured-annotations="enabled" jsr250-annotations="enabled">
</global-method-security>

<http auto-config="true" >
    <intercept-url pattern="/secure/**" access="ROLE_SUPERVISOR" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/addcontact**" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_REMEMBERED" />
    <intercept-url pattern="/**" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY" />

    <concurrent-session-control max-sessions="1"
        exception-if-maximum-exceeded="true"/>
    <form-login login-page="/login.jsp" authentication-failure-url="/login.jsp?login_error=1"/>
    <logout logout-success-url="/welcome.do" logout-url="/logout"/>
</http>
    <authentication-provider>
    <password-encoder hash="md5"/>
    <user-service>
        <user name="rod" password="a564de63c2d0da68cf47586ee05984d7" authorities="ROLE_SUPERVISOR, ROLE_USER, ROLE_TELLER" />
    </user-service>
</authentication-provider>

Answer 1

Do you have the statement

<global-method-security   secured-annotations="enabled" jsr250-annotations="enabled" />

in the same configuration file as the one you defined the MyServiceManager bean? I had the same problem until I turned on debug for org.springframework, and noticed that spring security was only applied on the same file as the ones where global-method-security was defined in.