You'll need to copy acegi-security.jar into your WEB-INF/lib directory. You can find the JAR in the /dist directory of any ZIP distribution. Acegi-security.jar requires the following JARs in WEB-INF/lib: commons-logging.jar commons-codec.jar commons-collections.jar jakarta-oro.jar spring.jar Most of the above JARs are included with Spring. Those that are not are definitely included in the Acegi Security "with dependencies" release ZIP. $Id$