public class CustomAuthenticationProcessingFilter extends AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter {

    private String usernameHeader = "j_username";
    private String passwordHeader = "j_password";


    protected CustomAuthenticationProcessingFilter() {
        super("/j_spring_security_filter");
    }

    @Override
    public Authentication attemptAuthentication(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws AuthenticationException,
            IOException, ServletException {
        String username = request.getHeader(usernameHeader);
        String password = request.getHeader(passwordHeader);
        UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken authenticationToken=new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(username,password);         
        Authentication authentication=getAuthenticationManager().authenticate(authenticationToken);
       //some my actions
        return authentication;
    }
}

<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
             xmlns:beans="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-3.0.xsd
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.3.xsd">

    <http auto-config="true" use-expressions="true">
        <custom-filter ref="customFilter" before="FORM_LOGIN_FILTER"/>
        <intercept-url pattern="/login" access="permitAll"/>
        <form-login login-page="/login" authentication-failure-url="/loginfailed" default-target-url="/"/>
        <remember-me key="jbcpPetStore"/>
        <logout invalidate-session="true" logout-success-url="/" logout-url="/logout"/>
    </http>

    <beans:bean id="userDetailsServiceImpl" class="entities.user.UserDetailsServiceImpl"/>

    <beans:bean id="customFilter" class="entities.user.CustomAuthenticationProcessingFilter">
        <beans:property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager"/>
    </beans:bean>

    <authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
        <authentication-provider user-service-ref="userDetailsServiceImpl"/>
    </authentication-manager>
</beans:beans>