Beans configuration within GeoServer
When GeoFence is configured as an external application ("standalone" configuration), you only need the geofence plugin (WRT the geofence-server plugin)I
This is the configuration until GF3.8, since the Spring version in GF3.9 does not support remoting anymore:
When the geofence-server plugin is used, the GeoFence rule engine will be run within GeoServer ("embedded" configuration).
In this case the Spring properties are rewired so that the ruleReaderBackend
