I ended up having to declare both the form-login and the remember-me tags explicitly and declare them in the filter chain.
so instead of the tag and the tag I had to declare the respective filters as beans, configure them accordingly and then define them in their respective position in the filterchain with the tag. (If you use custom-filter tags and the explicit tags you get spring errors during startup time).
Here's what works for me:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
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-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd">
<security:http pattern="/_ui/**" security="none" />
<!-- Default security config -->
<security:http disable-url-rewriting="true" entry-point-ref="gymAuthenticationEntryPoint">
<!-- using custom login filter config and rememberme filter config -->
<security:custom-filter ref="gymRememberMeFilter" position="REMEMBER_ME_FILTER"/>
<security:custom-filter ref="gymAuthenticationFilter" position="FORM_LOGIN_FILTER"/>
<security:anonymous username="anonymous" granted-authority="ROLE_ANONYMOUS" />
<!-- session stealing is prevented by using secure GUID cookie -->
<security:session-management session-fixation-protection="none" />
<!-- SSL / AUTHENTICATED pages -->
<security:intercept-url pattern="/my-account*" access="ROLE_CUSTOMERGROUP" requires-channel="https" />
<!-- omitting intercept definitions for readability -->
<!-- use explicit FORM_LOGIN_FILTER (see above) and entry-point (see entry-point-ref in http tag) instead of form-login definition
<security:form-login
login-page="/login"
authentication-failure-handler-ref="loginAuthenticationFailureHandler"
authentication-success-handler-ref="loginGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler" />
-->
<security:logout logout-url="/logout" success-handler-ref="logoutSuccessHandler" />
<security:port-mappings>
<security:port-mapping http="#{configurationService.configuration.getProperty('tomcat.http.port')}"
https="#{configurationService.configuration.getProperty('tomcat.ssl.port')}" />
<security:port-mapping http="80" https="443" />
<!--security:port-mapping http="#{configurationService.configuration.getProperty('proxy.http.port')}"
https="#{configurationService.configuration.getProperty('proxy.ssl.port')}" /-->
</security:port-mappings>
<security:request-cache ref="httpSessionRequestCache" />
</security:http>
<security:authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
<security:authentication-provider ref="acceleratorAuthenticationProvider" />
<security:authentication-provider ref="rememberMeAuthenticationProvider" />
</security:authentication-manager>
<bean id="acceleratorAuthenticationProvider" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.AcceleratorAuthenticationProvider"
scope="tenant">
<property name="userDetailsService" ref="gymUserDetailService" />
<property name="adminGroup" value="ROLE_ADMINGROUP"/>
<property name="userService" ref="userService"/>
<property name="gymCustomerLoginService" ref="defaultGymCustomerLoginService"/>
</bean>
<bean id="gymUserDetailService" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.services.impl.GymCoreUserDetailsService" scope="tenant">
<property name="baseDao" ref="asyBaseDao" />
</bean>
<bean id="coreUserDetailsService" class="de.hybris.platform.spring.security.CoreUserDetailsService" scope="tenant" />
<!-- Login Success Handlers -->
<bean id="loginGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.GUIDAuthenticationSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
<property name="authenticationSuccessHandler" ref="loginAuthenticationSuccessHandler" />
<property name="guidCookieStrategy" ref="guidCookieStrategy" />
</bean>
<bean id="loginAuthenticationSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.StorefrontAuthenticationSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
<property name="customerFacade" ref="customerFacade" />
<property name="defaultTargetUrl" value="/my-account"/>
<property name="useReferer" value="true"/>
<property name="alwaysUseDefaultTargetUrl" value="false"/>
<property name="requestCache" ref="httpSessionRequestCache" />
</bean>
<bean id="loginCheckoutGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.GUIDAuthenticationSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
<property name="authenticationSuccessHandler" ref="loginCheckoutAuthenticationSuccessHandler" />
<property name="guidCookieStrategy" ref="guidCookieStrategy" />
<property name="defaultGymCartFacade" ref="gymCartFacade"/>
</bean>
<bean id="loginCheckoutAuthenticationSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.StorefrontAuthenticationSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
<property name="customerFacade" ref="customerFacade" />
<property name="defaultTargetUrl" value="/checkout/single/summary"/>
</bean>
<!-- Login Failure Handlers -->
<bean id="loginAuthenticationFailureHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.LoginAuthenticationFailureHandler">
<property name="defaultFailureUrl" value="/login?error=auth"/>
<property name="accountBlockedUrl" value="/login?error=blocked"/>
<property name="passwordMigrationUrl" value="/login?error=migration"/>
</bean>
<bean id="loginCheckoutAuthenticationFailureHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.LoginAuthenticationFailureHandler">
<property name="defaultFailureUrl" value="/login/checkout?error=auth"/>
<property name="accountBlockedUrl" value="/login/checkout?error=blocked"/>
<property name="passwordMigrationUrl" value="/login/checkout?error=migration"/>
</bean>
<!-- Logout Success Handler -->
<bean id="logoutSuccessHandler" class="org.jnj.storefront.security.StorefrontLogoutSuccessHandler" scope="tenant">
<property name="defaultTargetUrl" value="/?logout=true"/>
<property name="guidCookieStrategy" ref="guidCookieStrategy"/>
<property name="cmsSiteService" ref="cmsSiteService"/>
</bean>
<!-- remember me services -->
<bean id="rememberMeServices" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.TokenBasedRememberMeServices">
<property name="userDetailsService" ref="gymUserDetailService"/>
<property name="key" value="someprivatekey"/> <!-- must match the rememberMeAuthenticationProvider key -->
<property name="parameter" value="rememberMe" /><!-- must match the parameter in the login form -->
<property name="cookieName" value="JNJ_RMMBRM" />
<property name="useSecureCookie" value="false" /> <!-- if set to true "remember me" only gets detected when accessed via https -->
<property name="tokenValiditySeconds" value="31536000" /> <!-- 1 year -->
</bean>
<bean id="rememberMeAuthenticationProvider" class="org.springframework.security.authentication.RememberMeAuthenticationProvider">
<property name="key" value="someprivatekey"/>
</bean>
<bean id="gymRememberMeFilter" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.RememberMeAuthenticationFilter">
<property name="rememberMeServices" ref="rememberMeServices"/>
<property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" />
<property name="authenticationSuccessHandler" ref="loginGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler"/>
</bean>
<!-- login filter and entry point -->
<bean id="gymAuthenticationFilter" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter">
<property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager"/>
<property name="filterProcessesUrl" value="/j_spring_security_check"/>
<property name="rememberMeServices" ref="rememberMeServices"/>
<property name="authenticationSuccessHandler" ref="loginGuidAuthenticationSuccessHandler"/>
<property name="authenticationFailureHandler" ref="loginAuthenticationFailureHandler"/>
</bean>
<bean id="gymAuthenticationEntryPoint" class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.LoginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint">
<property name="loginFormUrl" value="/login"/>
</bean>