diff --git a/itest/web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/testapp-servlet.xml b/itest/web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/testapp-servlet.xml
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+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+        xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+                http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
+
+    <context:component-scan base-package="org.springframework.security.itest.web"/>
+    <context:annotation-config />
+</beans>