Spring Security - Third Edition

JAAS

Unfortunately, we did not have space to discuss Spring Security's JAAS integration. However, there is a JAAS sample application included in the Spring Security samples at https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#jaas-sample. In fact, there is also excellent documentation about JAAS integration, available in the Spring Security reference at https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#jaas. When looking at the JAAS reference documentation, you will notice that, from Spring Security 4.2 onwards, support was added for using JAAS login modules with arbitrary JAAS configuration implementations. Spring Security 4.2 also added the jaas-api-provision attribute to the <http> ...