diff --git a/jee-7/README.md b/jee-7/README.md
index f0bd65fdf2..a2493e561b 100644
--- a/jee-7/README.md
+++ b/jee-7/README.md
@@ -5,5 +5,3 @@
 - [Introduction to JAX-WS](http://www.baeldung.com/jax-ws)
 - [A Guide to Java EE Web-Related Annotations](http://www.baeldung.com/javaee-web-annotations)
 - [Introduction to Testing with Arquillian](http://www.baeldung.com/arquillian)
-- [Securing Java EE with Spring Security](http://www.baeldung.com/java-ee-spring-security)
-- [A Guide to Java EE Web-Related Annotations](https://www.baeldung.com/javaee-web-annotations)
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diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/ApplicationConfig.java b/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/ApplicationConfig.java
deleted file mode 100755
index f8e7982253..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/ApplicationConfig.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-package com.baeldung.springSecurity;
-
-import javax.ws.rs.ApplicationPath;
-import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
-
-/**
- * Application class required by JAX-RS. If you don't want to have any
- * prefix in the URL, you can set the application path to "/".
- */
-@ApplicationPath("/")
-public class ApplicationConfig extends Application {
-
-}
diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/SecurityWebApplicationInitializer.java b/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/SecurityWebApplicationInitializer.java
deleted file mode 100644
index e6a05f7b71..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/SecurityWebApplicationInitializer.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-package com.baeldung.springSecurity;
-
-import org.springframework.security.web.context.AbstractSecurityWebApplicationInitializer;
-
-public class SecurityWebApplicationInitializer extends AbstractSecurityWebApplicationInitializer {
-
-    public SecurityWebApplicationInitializer() {
-        super(SpringSecurityConfig.class);
-    }
-}
diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/SpringSecurityConfig.java b/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/SpringSecurityConfig.java
deleted file mode 100644
index bda8930f36..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/SpringSecurityConfig.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-package com.baeldung.springSecurity;
-
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.authentication.builders.AuthenticationManagerBuilder;
-import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders.HttpSecurity;
-import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableWebSecurity;
-import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter;
-
-@Configuration
-@EnableWebSecurity
-public class SpringSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
-    @Override
-    protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
-        auth
-          .inMemoryAuthentication()
-          .withUser("user1")
-          .password("user1Pass")
-          .roles("USER")
-          .and()
-          .withUser("admin")
-          .password("adminPass")
-          .roles("ADMIN");
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
-        http
-          .csrf()
-          .disable()
-          .authorizeRequests()
-          .antMatchers("/auth/login*")
-          .anonymous()
-          .antMatchers("/home/admin*")
-          .hasRole("ADMIN")
-          .anyRequest()
-          .authenticated()
-          .and()
-          .formLogin()
-          .loginPage("/auth/login")
-          .defaultSuccessUrl("/home", true)
-          .failureUrl("/auth/login?error=true")
-          .and()
-          .logout()
-          .logoutSuccessUrl("/auth/login");
-    }
-}
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diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/controller/HomeController.java b/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/controller/HomeController.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 53fd9f4b81..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/controller/HomeController.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-package com.baeldung.springSecurity.controller;
-
-import javax.mvc.annotation.Controller;
-import javax.ws.rs.GET;
-import javax.ws.rs.Path;
-
-@Path("/home")
-@Controller
-public class HomeController {
-
-    @GET
-    public String home() {
-        return "home.jsp";
-    }
-
-    @GET
-    @Path("/user")
-    public String admin() {
-        return "user.jsp";
-    }
-
-    @GET
-    @Path("/admin")
-    public String user() {
-        return "admin.jsp";
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/controller/LoginController.java b/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/controller/LoginController.java
deleted file mode 100644
index a7e7bb471d..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springSecurity/controller/LoginController.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-package com.baeldung.springSecurity.controller;
-
-import javax.mvc.annotation.Controller;
-import javax.ws.rs.GET;
-import javax.ws.rs.Path;
-
-@Path("/auth/login")
-@Controller
-public class LoginController {
-
-    @GET
-    public String login() {
-        return "login.jsp";
-    }
-}
diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/security.xml b/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/security.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 777cd9461f..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/security.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<b:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
-         xmlns:b="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
-		 http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
-
-    <authentication-manager>
-        <authentication-provider>
-            <user-service>
-                <user name="user" password="user123" authorities="ROLE_USER" />
-            </user-service>
-        </authentication-provider>
-    </authentication-manager>
-
-    <http auto-config='true' use-expressions="true">
-        <form-login default-target-url="/secure.jsp" />
-        <intercept-url pattern="/" access="isAnonymous()" />
-        <intercept-url pattern="/index.jsp" access="isAnonymous()" />
-        <intercept-url pattern="/secure.jsp" access="hasRole('ROLE_USER')" />
-    </http>
-
-</b:beans>
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diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/admin.jsp b/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/admin.jsp
deleted file mode 100644
index b83ea09f5b..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/admin.jsp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
-<%@ taglib prefix="security" uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags" %>
-<html>
-<head></head>
-
-<body>
-    <h1>Welcome to the ADMIN page</h1>
-
-    <a href="<c:url value="/logout" />">Logout</a>
-
-</body>
-</html>
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diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp b/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp
deleted file mode 100644
index c6e129c9ce..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
-<%@ taglib prefix="security" uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags" %>
-<html>
-<head></head>
-
-<body>
-    <h1>This is the body of the sample view</h1>
-
-    <security:authorize access="hasRole('USER')">
-        This text is only visible to a user
-        <br/> <br/>
-        <a href="<c:url value="/home/user" />">Restricted Admin Page</a>
-        <br/> <br/>
-    </security:authorize>
-	
-    <security:authorize access="hasRole('ADMIN')">
-        This text is only visible to an admin
-        <br/>
-        <a href="<c:url value="/home/admin" />">Admin Page</a>
-        <br/>
-    </security:authorize>
-
-    <a href="<c:url value="/logout" />">Logout</a>
-
-</body>
-</html>
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diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/login.jsp b/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/login.jsp
deleted file mode 100644
index d6f2e56f3a..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/login.jsp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-<html>
-<head></head>
-
-<body>
-<h1>Login</h1>
-
-<form name='f' action="/auth/login" method='POST'>
-
-    <table>
-        <tr>
-            <td>User:</td>
-            <td><input type='text' name='username' value=''></td>
-        </tr>
-        <tr>
-            <td>Password:</td>
-            <td><input type='password' name='password'/></td>
-        </tr>
-        <tr>
-            <td><input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit"/></td>
-        </tr>
-    </table>
-
-</form>
-
-</body>
-</html>
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diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/user.jsp b/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/user.jsp
deleted file mode 100644
index 11b8155da7..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/user.jsp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
-<%@ taglib prefix="security" uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags" %>
-<html>
-<head></head>
-
-<body>
-    <h1>Welcome to the Restricted Admin page</h1>
-
-    <a href="<c:url value="/logout" />">Logout</a>
-
-</body>
-</html>
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diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 1bcbb96e24..e656ffc5be 100644
--- a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/jee-7/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 <?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" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" version="3.0">
+<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
+		xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
+		xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" 
+		version="3.0">
   <!-- The bare minimum needed for JSF 2.2 is a servlet 2.5 or later
        declaration (this uses 3.0) and the mapping for the FacesServlet.
        Setting PROJECT_STAGE to Development is highly recommended
diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/index.jsp b/jee-7/src/main/webapp/index.jsp
deleted file mode 100644
index 93fef9713d..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/index.jsp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
-<html>
-  <head>
-    <title>Index Page</title>
-  </head>
-  <body>
-  Non-secured Index Page
-  <br>
-  <a href="/login">Login</a>
-  </body>
-</html>
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diff --git a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/secure.jsp b/jee-7/src/main/webapp/secure.jsp
deleted file mode 100644
index 0cadd2cd4f..0000000000
--- a/jee-7/src/main/webapp/secure.jsp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
-         pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
-<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
-<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags" prefix="sec" %>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-<html>
-<head>
-    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
-    <title>Home Page</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-<h3>Home Page</h3>
-
-<p>
-    Hello <b><c:out value="${pageContext.request.remoteUser}"/></b><br>
-    Roles: <b><sec:authentication property="principal.authorities" /></b>
-</p>
-
-<form action="logout" method="post">
-    <input type="submit" value="Logout" />
-    <input type="hidden" name="${_csrf.parameterName}" value="${_csrf.token}"/>
-</form>
-</body>
-</html>
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