Chapter 5. Securing Your Applications
Spring Security provides a wide range of features for securing Java/Spring-based enterprise applications. At first glance, the security features of Servlets or EJB look an alternative of Spring Security; however, these solutions lack certain requirements for developing enterprise applications. The server's environment dependency could be another drawback of these solutions.
Authentication and authorization are the main areas of application security. Authentication is the verification of a user's identity, whereas authorization is the verification of the privileges of a user.
Spring Security integrates with a variety of authentication models, most of which are provided by third-party providers. In addition, Spring ...
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