Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

Maven setup

Using Spring Initializr for generating a Spring WebFlux project is really easy. But for us to get a handle on the various aspects of a WebFlux application, we will build aspect by ourselves. However, we will be using Spring Boot to run our application.

We will create a maven project, and will then add the following main dependencies (to make the code shorter, only important dependencies are shown in the following code) to our pom.xml:

<!--Spring Framework and Spring Boot--><dependency>  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-webflux</artifactId></dependency><!--JSON--><dependency>…</dependency><!--Logging--><dependency>…</dependency><!--Testing--><dependency>…</dependency>

We will include snapshot ...