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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
-<!--
- * The Acegi Security System for Spring is published under the terms
- * of the Apache Software License.
- * $Id$
--->
-
-<beans>
-
-	<!-- =================== SECURITY SYSTEM DEFINITIONS ================== -->
-	
-	<!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AUTHENTICATION DEFINITIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -->
-
-	<!-- Authentication provider that accepts as valid any adapter-created Authentication token  -->
-	<bean id="authByAdapterProvider" class="net.sf.acegisecurity.adapters.AuthByAdapterProvider">
-  		<property name="key"><value>my_password</value></property>
- 	</bean>
-
-	<!-- The authentication manager that iterates through our authentication providers -->
-	<bean id="providerManager" class="net.sf.acegisecurity.providers.ProviderManager">
-		<property name="providers">
-		  <list>
-		    <ref bean="authByAdapterProvider"/>
-		  </list>
-		</property>
-	</bean>
-
-</beans>