CHAPTER 2
Introducing Spring Security
In this chapter, you will learn what Spring Security is and how you can use it to address security concerns about your application. We’ll build a simple application secured with Spring Security. We’ll start with a Servlet-based web application without any security, and then we’ll add security to it in a declarative, nonintrusive way.
Also in this chapter, we’ll take a look at the framework’s source code, how to build it, and the different modules that together form the powerful Spring Security project.
What Is Spring Security?
Spring Security is a framework dedicated to providing a full array of security ...
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