what i am trying to do is i'm following this http://www.theserverside.com/tip/-Spring-Security-Customizing-Your-User-and-Authorization-in website to attempt to customise the UserDetails so i can retrieve more fields regarding to the user... as far as implementing the UserDetails, where i am confused is the UserDetailsService at the moment i only have the code for the userDetailsService that is in the website linked above i'm just not sure on how to go about doing it