hello there iam trying to make a custom AuthenticationProcessingFilter to save some user data in the session after successful login here's my filter: Code: package projects.internal; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.springframework.security.Authentication; import org.springframework.security.ui.webapp.AuthenticationProcessingFilter; public class MyAuthenticationProcessingFilter extends AuthenticationProcessingFilter { protected void onSuccessfulAuthentication(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Authentication authResult) throws IOException { super.onSuccessfulAuthentication(request, response, authResult); request.getSession().setAttribute("myValue", "My value is set"); } } and here's my security.xml file Code: <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.xsd"> <global-method-security pre-post-annotations="enabled"> </global-method-security> <http use-expressions="true" auto-config="false" entry-point-ref="authenticationProcessingFilterEntryPoint"> <intercept-url pattern="/" access="permitAll" /> <intercept-url pattern="/images/**" filters="none" /> <intercept-url pattern="/scripts/**" filters="none" /> <intercept-url pattern="/styles/**" filters="none" /> <intercept-url pattern="/p/login.jsp" filters="none" /> <intercept-url pattern="/p/register" filters="none" /> <intercept-url pattern="/p/**" access="isAuthenticated()" /> <form-login login-processing-url="/j_spring_security_check" login-page="/p/login.jsp" authentication-failure-url="/p/login_error.jsp" /> <logout /> </http> <authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager"> <authentication-provider> <jdbc-user-service data-source-ref="dataSource"/> </authentication-provider> </authentication-manager> <beans:bean id="authenticationProcessingFilter" class="projects.internal.MyAuthenticationProcessingFilter"> <custom-filter position="AUTHENTICATION_PROCESSING_FILTER" /> </beans:bean> <beans:bean id="authenticationProcessingFilterEntryPoint" class="org.springframework.security.ui.webapp.AuthenticationProcessingFilterEntryPoint"> </beans:bean> </beans:beans> it gives an error here: Code: <custom-filter position="AUTHENTICATION_PROCESSING_FILTER" /> multiple annotation found at this line:cvc-attribute.3 cvc-complex-type.4 cvc-enumeration-vaild what is the problem? thanks in advance