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7. Spring Security

Marten Deinum, Daniel Rubio2 and Josh Long3

(1)Meppel, Drenthe, The Netherlands

(2)F. Bahia, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

(3)Apartment 205, Canyon Country, California, USA

In this chapter, you will learn how to secure applications using the Spring Security framework, a subproject of the Spring Framework. Spring Security was initially known as Acegi Security, but its name was changed after joining with the Spring portfolio projects. Spring Security can be used to secure any Java application, but it’s mostly used for web-based applications. Web applications, especially those ...

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