Spring 5.0 Projects

Changes in the Spring Boot application

After completing the preceding requirements, we will start to make the necessary changes in the Spring Boot application that we created for LDAP authentication. The aim is to build a central authentication and authorization server that will work with both technologies (LDAP and OAuth). 

When the user enters a plain username and password, the authentication and authorization will be done with LDAP. We will configure our application with Google, for OAuth. The very first step for OAuth integration is to declare the relevant starters. Spring Boot provides support for OAuth in the form of starters. Add the following starter entries in a pom.xml file:

<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> ...