November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
14h 24m
English
We can see a common theme among the external authentication providers examined over the next several chapters. Spring Security provides convenient wrappers around the provider integrations that are actually developed outside the Spring ecosystem.
In this vein, the Spring Social project (http://projects.spring.io/spring-social/) provides the underlying OAuth 2 provider discovery and request/response negotiation for the Spring Security OAuth 2 functionality.
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