Spring Security - Third Edition

Using Spring 4.3 and Spring Security 4.2

Spring 4.2 is used consistently. Our sample applications provide an example of the former option, which means that no additional work is required by you.

In the following code, we present an example fragment of what is added to the Gradle build.gradle file to utilize the dependency management feature of Gradle; this ensures that correct Spring version is used throughout the entire application. We are going to leverage the Spring IO bill of materials (BOM) dependency, which will ensure that all the dependency versions imported by the BOM will work together correctly:

    build.gradle    // Spring Security IO with ensures correct Springframework versions    dependencyManagement {         imports { mavenBom 'io.spring.platform:platform-bom:Brussels-${springIoVersion}' ...