I love how JBoss 7(.1) has everything working out of the box – not much fiddling with jars or suchlike and with Arquillian, everything really was a treat to get started on a new project. This was until I had to sort out security with seam-security.

To be fair, the main issue was just poor documentation. It took me a day to sort out what should essentially have taken an hour(or two)

The documentation you get to from http://www.seamframework.org/Seam3/SecurityModule seems to be out of date. The fact that the page referes to version 3.0.0.Alpha1 and Alpha2 should have tipped me off but the url for the doc suggested it was the latest.

The more up to date documentation I found was at http://docs.jboss.org/seam/3/3.1.0.Final/reference/en-US/html/pt04.html

I followed chapter 33 on there and I won’t repeat it here for the sake of brevity.

What follows are the additional steps I had to take to get it to work.

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