Spring Security - Third Edition

Preface

Welcome to the world of Spring Security 4.2! We're certainly pleased that you have acquired the only published book fully devoted to Spring Security 4.2. Before we get started with the book, we would like to give you an overview of how the book is organized and how you can get the most out of it.

Once you have read this book, you should be familiar with key security concepts and understand how to solve the majority of the real-world problems that you will need to solve with Spring Security. Through this discovery, you will gain an in-depth understanding of Spring Security's architecture, which will allow you to handle any unexpected use cases the book does not cover.

The book is divided into the following four main sections:

• The ...