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Displaying page elements only to authenticated users in views

In this recipe, you'll learn how to display some elements of a page only to authenticated users. For example, a summary box with the information about the account of the currently logged-in user.

How to do it…

Use the <sec:authorize> tag in the JSP file to add conditions for some content to be displayed:

1. Add the Maven dependency for the Spring Security JSP tags library in pom.xml:

   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
     <version>3.2.5.RELEASE</version>
   </dependency>

2. In the JSP, declare the tag library and use <sec:authorize>:

   <%@ taglib prefix="sec" uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags" %>    
   
   <sec:authorize access="isAuthenticated()" ...