CHAPTER 5

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Securing the Service Layer

This chapter will drill down further into the core functionality of Spring Security.

Unlike in the previous chapter where I focused only on the web-level access to the application, here you will see another important area in which Spring Security can help you secure your applications. It can be seen as a more invasive type of configuration because it involves securing at the code level, while the web layer simply was concerned with URL matching. However, you will see how the elegant way in which Spring can manage aspect-oriented programming (AOP) concerns will make business-level security as unobtrusive as ...

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