Multiple Authentication Providers in Spring Security

I have configured two authentication providers in my Spring Security config:

   <security:authentication-manager>
      <security:authentication-provider ref="XProvider" />
      <security:authentication-provider ref="YProvider" />
   </security:authentication-manager>

Does spring security evaluate both providers? Or does it stop to evaluate if one of them fails? If not, How to make it stop?

Thanks.

You can specify as many providers as you want. They will be checked in the same order you declared them inside the authentication-manager tag.

Once a successful authentication is made, it will stop polling the providers. If any provider throws an AccountStatusException it will also break the polling.