February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 46m
English
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Creating a web application with Spring Boot
We have created the data structure and have added the users, along with their credentials, in the LDAP server. Next, we will build a web application and integrate Spring Security, which will talk to the LDAP server for authentication. In the previous chapter, we built an application with Spring MVC and Thymeleaf. We will reuse the same architecture and create a web application with the following artifacts:
- Spring Boot, for creating a web application and auto configuration for other modules
- Thymeleaf, for the presentation layer
- Spring Security, to perform authentication with LDAP.
Like in the previous chapter, we will use an Eclipse-based IDE called Spring Tool Suite (STS) in this chapter. Create ...