Spring security not intercepting request

I'm trying to do a basic spring security D/B authentication program.I tried this by two ways i.e.

Method 1 : Using custom tables for Spring Security authentication.
Method 2 : Using Spring security specific database tables for user authentication and authorization.

File Locations:
1. index.jsp -> webapp/index.jsp
2. welcome.jsp -> webapp/pages/welcome.jsp
3. login.jsp -> webapp/pages/login.jsp

For method 1,Spring security was not intercepting request and i didn't see errors in console.Instead of intercepting the request i was directly taken to welcome.jsp.

P.S – Since i was not trying authorization, i didn't use 'authorities-by-username-query' attribute below in security context xml. I'm not sure if its mandatory to create a table for authorization as well.

Below is my security-context.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
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-3.1.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd">

<security:http auto-config="true">
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/welcome.html" />
    <security:form-login login-page="/login.html"
        default-target-url="/welcome.html" authentication-failure-url="/loginfailed.html" />
    <security:logout logout-success-url="/logout.html" />
</security:http>

<security:authentication-manager>
    <security:authentication-provider>
        <security:jdbc-user-service data-source-ref="dataSource"
         users-by-username-query="select FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,PASSWORD from USER_AUTHENTICATION where FIRST_NAME=?" />
    </security:authentication-provider>
</security:authentication-manager>

web.xml:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-  app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee   http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
 <display-name>SpringPOC</display-name>
 <servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
        /WEB-INF/applicationContextDirect.xml
        /WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
    </param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

BaseController

//@RequestMapping(value="/login", method = RequestMethod.GET)
@RequestMapping("/login")
public ModelAndView login(Model model) {
    //System.out.println("Inside /login...");
    return new ModelAndView("login");
}
/*public String login(ModelMap model) {

    System.out.println("Inside /login...");
    return "login";

}*/

@RequestMapping(value="/loginfailed", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String loginerror(ModelMap model) {

    model.addAttribute("error", "true");
    return "login";

}

@RequestMapping(value="/logout", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String logout(ModelMap model) {

    return "login";

}

login.jsp

    <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
          <html>
         <head>
         <title>Login Page</title>
         <style>
         .errorblock {
    color: #ff0000;
    background-color: #ffEEEE;
    border: 3px solid #ff0000;
    padding: 8px;
    margin: 16px;
     }
     </style>
     </head>
     <body onload='document.f.j_username.focus();'>
    <h3>Login with Username and Password (Authentication with Database)</h3>

    <c:if test="${not empty error}">
        <div class="errorblock">
            Your login attempt was not successful, try again.<br /> Caused :
            ${sessionScope["SPRING_SECURITY_LAST_EXCEPTION"].message}
        </div>
    </c:if>

    <form name='f' action="<c:url value='j_spring_security_check' />"
        method='POST'>

        <table>
            <tr>
                <td>User:</td>
                <td><input type='text' name='j_username' value=''>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Password:</td>
                <td><input type='password' name='j_password' />
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan='2'><input name="submit" type="submit"
                    value="submit" />
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan='2'><input name="reset" type="reset" />
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>

    </form>

index.jsp

    <body>
    <div id="content">
   <h1>Home Page</h1>
   <p>
   Anyone can view this page.
   </p>
   <p><a href="welcome.html">Login page</a></p>
   </div>
   </body>

For method 2, i created spring specific database tables in the name of “USERS” and “AUTHORITIES” after following the below link. Here SQL query is not used in xml as shown below.

 http://www.raistudies.com/spring-security-tutorial/authentication-authorization-spring-security-mysql-database/

Every thing remains same except for security-context.xml.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"         xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
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-3.1.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-2.0.xsd">

<security:http realm="Project Realm" auto-config="true">
    <security:intercept-url pattern="/welcome.html" access="ROLE_USER"/>
    <security:form-login login-page="/login.html"
        default-target-url="/welcome.html" authentication-failure-url="/loginfailed.html" />
    <security:logout logout-success-url="/logout.html" />   
</security:http>

<security:authentication-manager>
    <security:authentication-provider>
    <security:password-encoder hash="md5"/>
    <security:jdbc-user-service data-source-ref="dataSource"/>
    </security:authentication-provider>
</security:authentication-manager>
    </beans>

when i tried the above way, even though i enter correct user name & password, i was getting 'bad credentials' message [But yes, in this case spring security is intercepting the request]. I'm using Oracle database.

[Update]: I enabled spring debug logging to find the root cause of errors in both methods. I couldn't figure out or understand what exactly is wrong from logs, so i compared logs i got after trying both methods.As,for method 1 Spring security was not intercepting request and for method 2 i was able to login (Spring security was atleast intercepting request) but i was getting 'Bad credential' message even after entering correct username & password.

Below is the code snippet for method 2[ Here i get login page,but authentication is failing]

            firing Filter: 'FilterSecurityInterceptor'
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.util.AntPathRequestMatcher - Checking match of request : '/welcome.html'; against 

        '/welcome.html'
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor - Secure object: FilterInvocation: URL: 

        /welcome.html; Attributes: [ROLE_USER]
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor - Previously Authenticated: 

        org.springframework.security.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationToken@9055c2bc: Principal: anonymousUser; Credentials: 

        [PROTECTED]; Authenticated: true; Details: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.WebAuthenticationDetails@b364: 

        RemoteIpAddress: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1; SessionId: null; Granted Authorities: ROLE_ANONYMOUS
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.access.vote.AffirmativeBased - Voter: 

        org.springframework.security.access.vote.RoleVoter@19432e0, returned: -1
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.access.vote.AffirmativeBased - Voter: 

        org.springframework.security.access.vote.AuthenticatedVoter@9830bc, returned: 0
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter - Access is denied (user is anonymous); 

        redirecting to authentication entry point
        org.springframework.security.access.AccessDeniedException: Access is denied
            at org.springframework.security.access.vote.AffirmativeBased.decide(AffirmativeBased.java:83)
            at org.springframework.security.access.intercept.AbstractSecurityInterceptor.beforeInvocation

        (AbstractSecurityInterceptor.java:206)
            at org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke

        (FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:115)
            at org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter

        (FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:84)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:113)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.session.SessionManagementFilter.doFilter(SessionManagementFilter.java:103)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.doFilter

        (AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.java:113)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.servletapi.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.doFilter

        (SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.java:54)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.savedrequest.RequestCacheAwareFilter.doFilter(RequestCacheAwareFilter.java:45)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.www.BasicAuthenticationFilter.doFilter

        (BasicAuthenticationFilter.java:150)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter

        (AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:183)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.logout.LogoutFilter.doFilter(LogoutFilter.java:105)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter

        (SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.java:87)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilterInternal(FilterChainProxy.java:192)
            at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:160)
            at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.invokeDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:346)
            at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:259)
            at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
            at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
            at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
            at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
            at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
            at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
            at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
            at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
            at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:857)
            at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
            at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
            at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.savedrequest.HttpSessionRequestCache - DefaultSavedRequest added to Session: 

        DefaultSavedRequest[http://localhost:8080/itrade-web/welcome.html]
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter - Calling Authentication entry point.
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.DefaultRedirectStrategy - Redirecting to 'http://localhost:8080/itrade-

        web/login.html;jsessionid=3FD72892F4F4EF2E65B0C90ABE115354'
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.context.HttpSessionSecurityContextRepository - SecurityContext is empty or contents 

        are anonymous - context will not be stored in HttpSession.
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter - SecurityContextHolder now cleared, as 

        request processing completed
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy - /login.html at position 1 of 10 in additional filter chain; 

        firing Filter: 'SecurityContextPersistenceFilter'
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.context.HttpSessionSecurityContextRepository - HttpSession returned null object for SPRING_SECURITY_CONTEXT
        firing Filter: 'UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter'
        ...
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy - /login.html at position 7 of 10 in additional filter chain; 

        firing Filter: 'AnonymousAuthenticationFilter'
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter - Populated SecurityContextHolder with 

        anonymous token: 'org.springframework.security.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationToken@6fa8940c: Principal: 

        anonymousUser; Credentials: [PROTECTED]; Authenticated: true; Details: 

        org.springframework.security.web.authentication.WebAuthenticationDetails@fffde5d4: RemoteIpAddress: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1; 

        SessionId: 3FD72892F4F4EF2E65B0C90ABE115354; Granted Authorities: ROLE_ANONYMOUS'
                    ...
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter - Request is to process 

        authentication
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.authentication.ProviderManager - Authentication attempt using 

        org.springframework.security.authentication.dao.DaoAuthenticationProvider
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.provisioning.JdbcUserDetailsManager - Query returned no results for user 'admin'
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.authentication.dao.DaoAuthenticationProvider - User 'admin' not found
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter - Authentication request 

        failed: org.springframework.security.authentication.BadCredentialsException: Bad credentials
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter - Updated SecurityContextHolder 

        to contain null Authentication
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter - Delegating to authentication 

        failure handler org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler@1882c1a
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler - Redirecting to 

        /loginfailed.html
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.DefaultRedirectStrategy - Redirecting to '/itrade-web/loginfailed.html'
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.context.HttpSessionSecurityContextRepository - SecurityContext is empty or contents 

        are anonymous - context will not be stored in HttpSession.
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter - SecurityContextHolder now cleared, as 

        request processing completed

[Update] For method 1 ,i added 'authorities-by-username-query' tag after creating a custom table for 'authorization'. Now i'm getting login screen, so i got to know inorder for spring security to intercept i need to have 'authorities-by-username-query' tag .But after entering user name and password i get following error mesage :

 Caused : PreparedStatementCallback; uncategorized SQLException for SQL [select          FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,PASSWORD from USER_AUTHENTICATION where FIRST_NAME=?]; SQL state   [null]; error code [17059]; Fail to convert to internal representation; nested exception is   java.sql.SQLException: Fail to convert to internal representation 

i see following lines in debug mode :

            DEBUG: org.springframework.security.authentication.ProviderManager - Authentication attempt using org.springframework.security.authentication.dao.DaoAuthenticationProvider
        INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader - Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [org/springframework/jdbc/support/sql-error-codes.xml]
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter - Authentication request failed: org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationServiceException: PreparedStatementCallback; uncategorized SQLException for SQL [select FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME,PASSWORD from USER_AUTHENTICATION where FIRST_NAME=?]; SQL state [null]; error code [17059]; Fail to convert to internal representation; nested exception is java.sql.SQLException: Fail to convert to internal representation
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter - Updated SecurityContextHolder to contain null Authentication
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter - Delegating to authentication failure handler org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler@e7736c
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler - Redirecting to /loginfailed.html
        DEBUG: org.springframework.security.web.DefaultRedirectStrategy - Redirecting to '/itrade-web/loginfailed.html'

[Update]: Now for both methods i'm getting same error though i enter correct user name & password.Also,since i could fetch data from D/B i'm sure that I'm not going wrong because of data not present in D/B.

 DEBUG: org.springframework.security.provisioning.JdbcUserDetailsManager - Query returned no results for user 'user'

I feel there should be any other reason behind this error.

[Edit] Now I've following 'users_detail' table in D/B :

USER_ID INTEGER

USERNAME VARCHAR2 (50 Byte)

PASSWORD VARCHAR2 (50 Byte)

ENABLED INTEGER

Data in the 'users_detail' table :

USER_ID USERNAME PASSWORD ENABLED

100 user 123456 1

My query is in security-context.xml :

  "select username,password, enabled from users_detail where username=?"

when i execute the query manually i.e. select username,password,enabled from users_detail where username='user'. i get the resultsets.

Where am i going wrong ? Why is it that JdbcUserDetailsManager class always return 'Query returned no results for user 'user' ' even though there is an entry for the same in D/B.

Debug mode doesn't show which method of JdbcUserDetailsManager class is being executed when i get the above error. How can i know that? Also, does spring internally do any encryption/decryption technique while saving password field?