diff --git a/config/src/test/groovy/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests.groovy b/config/src/test/groovy/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests.groovy
deleted file mode 100644
index b084d7888f..0000000000
--- a/config/src/test/groovy/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests.groovy
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-package org.springframework.security.config.http
-
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException
-import org.springframework.security.web.access.AccessDeniedHandlerImpl
-import org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter
-
-/**
- *
- * @author Luke Taylor
- */
-class AccessDeniedConfigTests extends AbstractHttpConfigTests {
-	def invalidAccessDeniedUrlIsDetected() {
-		when:
-		httpAutoConfig() {
-			'access-denied-handler'('error-page':'noLeadingSlash')
-		}
-		createAppContext();
-		then:
-		thrown(BeanCreationException)
-	}
-
-	def accessDeniedHandlerIsSetCorectly() {
-		httpAutoConfig() {
-			'access-denied-handler'(ref: 'adh')
-		}
-		bean('adh', AccessDeniedHandlerImpl)
-		createAppContext();
-
-		def filter = getFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.class);
-		def adh = appContext.getBean("adh");
-
-		expect:
-		filter.accessDeniedHandler == adh
-	}
-
-	def void accessDeniedHandlerPageAndRefAreMutuallyExclusive() {
-		when:
-		httpAutoConfig {
-			'access-denied-handler'('error-page': '/go-away', ref: 'adh')
-		}
-		createAppContext();
-		bean('adh', AccessDeniedHandlerImpl)
-		then:
-		thrown(BeanDefinitionParsingException)
-	}
-}
diff --git a/config/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests.java b/config/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..beadb9ea1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/src/test/java/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2018 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.springframework.security.config.http;
+
+import org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException;
+import org.springframework.security.access.AccessDeniedException;
+import org.springframework.security.config.test.SpringTestContext;
+import org.springframework.security.config.test.SpringTestRule;
+import org.springframework.security.test.context.annotation.SecurityTestExecutionListeners;
+import org.springframework.security.test.context.support.WithMockUser;
+import org.springframework.security.web.access.AccessDeniedHandler;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc;
+
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.get;
+import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.status;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author Luke Taylor
+ * @author Josh Cummings
+ */
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@SecurityTestExecutionListeners
+public class AccessDeniedConfigTests {
+	private static final String CONFIG_LOCATION_PREFIX =
+			"classpath:org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests";
+
+	@Autowired
+	MockMvc mvc;
+
+	@Rule
+	public final SpringTestRule spring = new SpringTestRule();
+
+	@Test
+	public void configureWhenAccessDeniedHandlerIsMissingLeadingSlashThenException() {
+		SpringTestContext context = this.spring.configLocations(this.xml("NoLeadingSlash"));
+
+		assertThatThrownBy(() -> context.autowire())
+				.isInstanceOf(BeanCreationException.class)
+				.hasMessageContaining("errorPage must begin with '/'");
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	@WithMockUser
+	public void configureWhenAccessDeniedHandlerRefThenAutowire()
+		throws Exception {
+
+		this.spring.configLocations(this.xml("AccessDeniedHandler")).autowire();
+
+		this.mvc.perform(get("/"))
+				.andExpect(status().is(HttpStatus.GONE_410));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void configureWhenAccessDeniedHandlerUsesPathAndRefThenException() {
+		SpringTestContext context = this.spring.configLocations(this.xml("UsesPathAndRef"));
+
+		assertThatThrownBy(() -> context.autowire())
+				.isInstanceOf(BeanDefinitionParsingException.class)
+				.hasMessageContaining("attribute error-page cannot be used together with the 'ref' attribute");
+	}
+
+	private String xml(String configName) {
+		return CONFIG_LOCATION_PREFIX + "-" + configName + ".xml";
+	}
+
+	public static class GoneAccessDeniedHandler implements AccessDeniedHandler {
+
+		@Override
+		public void handle(HttpServletRequest request,
+							HttpServletResponse response,
+							AccessDeniedException accessDeniedException) {
+
+			response.setStatus(HttpStatus.GONE_410);
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests-AccessDeniedHandler.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests-AccessDeniedHandler.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..58d807a4c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests-AccessDeniedHandler.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2002-2018 the original author or authors.
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+
+<b:beans xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+		xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
+		xsi:schemaLocation="
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+
+	<http auto-config="true" use-expressions="true">
+		<access-denied-handler ref="adh"/>
+		<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="denyAll"/>
+	</http>
+
+	<b:bean name="adh"
+			class="org.springframework.security.config.http.AccessDeniedConfigTests.GoneAccessDeniedHandler"/>
+
+	<b:import resource="userservice.xml"/>
+</b:beans>
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests-NoLeadingSlash.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests-NoLeadingSlash.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..461aca3a75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests-NoLeadingSlash.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2002-2018 the original author or authors.
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+
+<b:beans xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+		xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
+		xsi:schemaLocation="
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+
+	<http auto-config="true">
+		<access-denied-handler error-page="noLeadingSlash"/>
+	</http>
+
+	<b:import resource="userservice.xml"/>
+</b:beans>
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests-UsesPathAndRef.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests-UsesPathAndRef.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..82bdfbec2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/AccessDeniedConfigTests-UsesPathAndRef.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2002-2018 the original author or authors.
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+
+<b:beans xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+		xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
+		xsi:schemaLocation="
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+
+	<http auto-config="true">
+		<access-denied-handler error-page="/go-away" ref="adh"/>
+	</http>
+
+	<b:bean name="adh"
+			class="org.springframework.security.config.http.AccessDeniedConfigTests.GoneAccessDeniedHandler"/>
+
+	<b:import resource="userservice.xml"/>
+</b:beans>
diff --git a/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/userservice.xml b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/userservice.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8d7071d98e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/src/test/resources/org/springframework/security/config/http/userservice.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2002-2018 the original author or authors.
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+
+<b:beans xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+		 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+		 xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
+		 xsi:schemaLocation="
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+	<user-service>
+		<user name="user" password="password" authorities="ROLE_USER"/>
+	</user-service>
+</b:beans>