Pro Spring MVC with WebFlux: Web Development in Spring Framework 5 and Spring Boot 2

© Marten Deinum and Iuliana Cosmina 2021

M. Deinum, I. CosminaPro Spring MVC with WebFluxhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5666-4_12

12. Spring Security

Marten Deinum¹   and Iuliana Cosmina²

(1)

MEPPEL, Drenthe, The Netherlands

(2)

EDINBURGH, UK

 

It is said that information is power. That is even more true nowadays when all web applications are hosted in the cloud and deployed in containers somebody else designed and hopefully secured and audited. The least that developers can do is keep passwords safe. Most web applications have public pages meant to be seen by anyone and private pages reserved for verified users. For example, the Bookstore application should have pages for adding, editing, and deleting book entries that are available only to users ...