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Grails 2: A Quick-Start Guide
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Grails 2: A Quick-Start Guide

by Dave Klein, Ben Klein
December 2013
Beginner to intermediate
222 pages
5h 13m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Grails Security Options

Grails provides several options when it comes to security, from rolling your own with controller interceptors and filters to using plugins for the more popular Java security frameworks out there. As of this writing, the main Grails plugin repository has forty-two security-related plugins.

There are plugins for Apache Shiro, CAS, Spring Security, Facebook Connect, and more. There is also the simple yet effective Authentication plugin, which doesn’t rely on any external libraries. There are plugins for Captchas, OpenID plugins...you get the picture. For your next Grails application, it would be wise to spend some time looking at these plugins to see whether one or more of them might meet your needs.[61] For this project, ...

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