title: How to secure a spring webapp using a LDAP server
body: <p>I have a webapp which is created using Spring and Maven. Which means it does not have a web.xml. I need to know how to secure this web app using spring security. Basically I need to connect to a LDAP server and cross check the credentials against it. I am a complete beginner in this scenario. So please help.  Any guidelines or tutorials are welcome.</p>