What beans are registered by the spring security namespace

Question

Hi I'm trying to customize spring security configuration for the 'access-decision-manager-ref' attribute in 'global-method-security' and I know spring security has default bean configurations for this work (in spring security namespace), but I want to customize these configurations so I need to know if there is somewhere I could find the default spring security beans configuration so I have the guidance I need

Answer 1

Normally, each XBeanDefinitionParser should document the beans it is registering. In your case, check SecurityNamespaceHandler to see what parser it is using for your element, and then check the javadoc. If there's nothing there, you'd have to read the code of the parser. It's tedious.

But even when you read it, you can't easily customize it. One way is to register a BeanPostProcessor to post-process the beans registered automatically.