October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
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15h 5m
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Now, let's take a look at UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter and its dependencies, as shown in the following figure:

As you can see, UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter extends from AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter, which holds a reference to an instance of AuthenticationManager. AuthenticationManager is an interface, which has only method: authenticate(). This method takes an unauthenticated Authentication instance as its input and returns an authenticated Authentication instance.
The following figure shows the relationship ...
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