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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
+       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+       xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
+       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
+       xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+       xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
+                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
+                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd
+
+
+                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
+                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-4.0.xsd
+                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache
+                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache-4.0.xsd
+
+
+                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
+                            http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-4.0.xsd">
+
+    <cache:annotation-driven/>
+
+    <bean id="props"
+          class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean">
+        <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true"/>
+        <property name="locations">
+            <array>
+                <value>classpath:kustvakt.conf</value>
+                <value>file:./kustvakt.conf</value>
+            </array>
+        </property>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="jdbc_props"
+          class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
+        <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true"/>
+        <property name="locations">
+            <array>
+                <value>classpath:jdbc.properties</value>
+                <value>file:./jdbc.properties</value>
+            </array>
+        </property>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id='cacheManager'
+          class='org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheCacheManager'
+          p:cacheManager-ref='ehcache'/>
+
+    <bean id='ehcache'
+          class='org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheManagerFactoryBean'
+          p:configLocation='classpath:ehcache.xml'
+          p:shared='true'/>
+
+    <!-- props are injected from default-config.xml -->
+    <bean id="kustvakt_config"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.config.KustvaktConfiguration">
+        <property name="properties" ref="props"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!--class="org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource"-->
+    <!-- org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.SingleConnectionDataSource -->
+    <bean id="dataSource"
+          class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.SingleConnectionDataSource"
+          lazy-init="true">
+        <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}"/>
+        <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}"/>
+        <property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}"/>
+        <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}"/>
+        <property name="suppressClose">
+            <value>true</value>
+        </property>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!-- to configure database for sqlite, mysql, etc. migrations -->
+    <bean id="flyway" class="org.flywaydb.core.Flyway" init-method="migrate">
+        <property name="baselineOnMigrate" value="false"/>
+        <property name="locations"
+                  value="classpath:${jdbc.schemaPath}"/>
+        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="kustvakt_db"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.handlers.JDBCClient">
+        <constructor-arg index="0" ref="dataSource"/>
+        <!-- deprecated property -->
+        <property name="database" value="${jdbc.database}"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="kustvakt_auditing"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.handlers.JDBCAuditing">
+        <constructor-arg ref="kustvakt_db"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="kustvakt_userdb"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.handlers.EntityDao">
+        <constructor-arg ref="kustvakt_db"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!--fixme: change name according to convention -->
+    <bean id="collectionProvider"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.handlers.CollectionDao">
+        <constructor-arg ref="kustvakt_db"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!--fixme: change name according to convention -->
+    <bean id="resourceProvider"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.handlers.ResourceDao">
+        <constructor-arg ref="kustvakt_db"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="kustvakt_policies"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.security.ac.PolicyDao">
+        <constructor-arg ref="kustvakt_db"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean name="kustvakt_encryption"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.interfaces.defaults.KustvaktEncryption">
+        <constructor-arg ref="kustvakt_config"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!-- authentication providers to use -->
+    <bean id="api_auth"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.security.auth.APIAuthentication">
+        <constructor-arg
+                type="de.ids_mannheim.korap.config.KustvaktConfiguration"
+                ref="kustvakt_config"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="openid_auth"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.security.auth.OpenIDconnectAuthentication">
+        <constructor-arg
+                type="de.ids_mannheim.korap.config.KustvaktConfiguration"
+                ref="kustvakt_config"/>
+        <constructor-arg
+                type="de.ids_mannheim.korap.interfaces.db.PersistenceClient"
+                ref="kustvakt_db"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="basic_auth"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.security.auth.BasicHttpAuth"/>
+
+
+    <bean id="session_auth"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.security.auth.SessionAuthentication">
+        <constructor-arg
+                type="de.ids_mannheim.korap.config.KustvaktConfiguration"
+                ref="kustvakt_config"/>
+        <constructor-arg
+                type="de.ids_mannheim.korap.interfaces.EncryptionIface"
+                ref="kustvakt_encryption"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <util:list id="auth_providers"
+               value-type="de.ids_mannheim.korap.interfaces.AuthenticationIface">
+        <ref bean="basic_auth"/>
+        <ref bean="session_auth"/>
+        <ref bean="api_auth"/>
+        <ref bean="openid_auth"/>
+    </util:list>
+
+    <!-- specify type for constructor argument -->
+    <bean id="kustvakt_authenticationmanager"
+          class="de.ids_mannheim.korap.security.auth.KustvaktAuthenticationManager">
+        <constructor-arg
+                type="de.ids_mannheim.korap.interfaces.db.EntityHandlerIface"
+                ref="kustvakt_userdb"/>
+        <constructor-arg type="de.ids_mannheim.korap.interfaces.EncryptionIface"
+                         ref="kustvakt_encryption"/>
+        <constructor-arg ref="kustvakt_config"/>
+        <constructor-arg
+                type="de.ids_mannheim.korap.interfaces.db.AuditingIface"
+                ref="kustvakt_auditing"/>
+        <!-- inject authentication providers to use -->
+        <property name="providers" ref="auth_providers"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <!-- todo: if db interfaces not loaded via spring, does transaction even work then? -->
+    <!-- the transactional advice (i.e. what 'happens'; see the <aop:advisor/> bean below) -->
+    <tx:advice id="txAdvice" transaction-manager="txManager">
+        <!-- the transactional semantics... -->
+        <tx:attributes>
+            <!-- all methods starting with 'get' are read-only -->
+            <tx:method name="get*" read-only="true"
+                       rollback-for="KorAPException"/>
+            <!-- other methods use the default transaction settings (see below) -->
+            <tx:method name="*" rollback-for="KorAPException"/>
+        </tx:attributes>
+    </tx:advice>
+
+    <!-- ensure that the above transactional advice runs for any execution
+        of an operation defined by the service interface -->
+    <aop:config>
+        <aop:pointcut id="service"
+                      expression="execution(* de.ids_mannheim.korap.interfaces.db.*.*(..))"/>
+        <aop:advisor advice-ref="txAdvice" pointcut-ref="service"/>
+    </aop:config>
+
+    <!-- similarly, don't forget the PlatformTransactionManager -->
+    <bean id="txManager"
+          class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
+        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
+    </bean>
+</beans>
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