Spring Security - Third Edition

Configuring a JDBC UserDetailsManager implementation

We'll modify the SecurityConfig.java file to declare that we're using a JDBC UserDetailsManager implementation, instead of the Spring Security in-memory UserDetailsService implementation that we configured in Chapter 2, Getting Started with Spring Security. This is done with a simple change to the UserDetailsManager declaration, as follows:

    //src/main/java/com/packtpub/springsecurity/configuration/SecurityConfig.java    …    @Bean    @Override    public UserDetailsManager userDetailsService() {       JdbcUserDetailsManager manager = new JdbcUserDetailsManager();       manager.setDataSource(dataSource);       return manager;    }    …

We replace the previous configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder) method, along with all of ...