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 ...
