Spring Security 3.x Cookbook

Spring Security with MongoDB

In this section let's see how Spring Security works with MongoDB. MongoDB is a popular NOSQL database. It is a document based database. MongoDB is written in the popular C++ database which makes it an object oriented document based database. In MongoDB queries are also document based, and it also provides indexing using JSON style to store and retrieve data. The latest Spring version available is Version 3.2 has been included in the POC.

Getting ready

• Download the MongoDB database
• Configure the data folder
• Start MongoDB in command prompt
• Start MongoDB in another command prompt
• Create horrordb database by inserting data into it
• Execute the command use horrordb
• Add MongoDB dependency to the POM (Project Object Model) file
• Add ...