Spring-Security: Call method after authentication

Question

I'd like to track when users are logging in to my application. I have some code that I would like to execute right after the user is authenticated. The problem is, I can't figure out where this should be called. Does spring-security have a way to call a method after authentication?

Answer 1

probably will be usefull for someone... In case of Spring 3, configure security:

<security:http use-expressions="true" auto-config="true">     <security:intercept-url pattern="..."/>     <security:form-login             authentication-failure-handler-ref="authFailureHandler"             authentication-success-handler-ref="authSuccessHandler"/>     <security:logout success-handler-ref="logoutSuccessHandler"             invalidate-session="true"/>     <security:session-management session-fixation-protection="newSession"/> </security:http>  <bean id="authFailureHandler" class="mine.AuthenticationFailureHandlerImpl"/> <bean id="authSuccessHandler" class="mine.AuthenticationSuccessHandlerImpl"/> <bean id="logoutSuccessHandler" class="mine.LogoutSuccessHandlerImpl"/> 

and implement an appropriate class:

public class AuthenticationSuccessHandlerImpl implements AuthenticationSuccessHandler {      @Override     public void onAuthenticationSuccess(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Authentication authentication) throws IOException, ServletException {         //do what you want with          response.getOutputStream().write("success".getBytes());     } } 

You can link resources via that xml config.