When any request reaches an application that is secured using Spring Security, there is a gate the request goes through. This interceptor does all the magic and if things don't look good, it errors out and goes back to the caller, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 10: Working of Security Interceptor
The Security Interceptor makes sure that, according to various security configurations set up for your application, it delegates the work to appropriate parties and makes sure that everyone is happy before actually reaching the resource requested by the caller. To do the actual job, the Security ...
