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9. Spring Security

Adam L. Davis1 
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Oviedo, FL, USA
 

Spring Security is a highly customizable authentication and access control framework. It is the standard for securing Spring-based applications. It includes support for a variety of security standards such as LDAP and OAuth2.

In addition, it integrates well with the other Spring modules and projects and can make use of annotation-based proxies. In addition, it works well with SpEL (Spring Expression Language) which we will cover in this chapter.

Features

Spring Security is easily extended and has many built-in features:
  • Comprehensive and extensible support for both Authentication and Authorization ...

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