diff --git a/spring-security-modules/spring-security-rest/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml b/spring-security-modules/spring-security-rest/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
index 2c0a0bc774..b20151b8f4 100644
--- a/spring-security-modules/spring-security-rest/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
+++ b/spring-security-modules/spring-security-rest/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
 		class="com.baeldung.security.MySavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler" />
 	<beans:bean id="myFailureHandler"
 		class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler" />
+    <bean name="encoder" 
+          class="org.springframework.security.crypto.bcrypt.BCryptPasswordEncoder"/> 
 
 	<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
 		<authentication-provider>