JBoss deployment fails due to Spring `No AuthenticationEntryPoint could be established` error

Issue

• Deployment fails with the following error:

ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/EFPPSWeb]] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 63) JBWEB000287: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener: org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: No AuthenticationEntryPoint could be established. Please make sure you have a login mechanism configured through the namespace (such as form-login) or specify a custom AuthenticationEntryPoint with the 'entry-point-ref' attribute 
Offending resource: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security-simple.xml]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.error(FailFastProblemReporter.java:68) [org.springframework.beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:85) [org.springframework.beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.error(ReaderContext.java:72) [org.springframework.beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.security.config.http.AuthenticationConfigBuilder.selectEntryPoint(AuthenticationConfigBuilder.java:520) [spring-security-config-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.security.config.http.AuthenticationConfigBuilder.createExceptionTranslationFilter(AuthenticationConfigBuilder.java:416) [spring-security-config-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.security.config.http.HttpSecurityBeanDefinitionParser.parse(HttpSecurityBeanDefinitionParser.java:116) [spring-security-config-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar:3.0.5.RELEASE]
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