Spring Security - Third Edition

The FilterChainProxy class

When working in conjunction with Spring Security, o.s.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy will delegate to the o.s.s.web.FilterChainProxy interface of Spring Security, which was created in our minimal security.xml file. The FilterChainProxy class allows Spring Security to conditionally apply any number of Servlet Filters to the servlet request. We will learn more about each of the Spring Security filters, and their roles in ensuring that our application is properly secured, throughout the rest of the book. The pseudocode for how FilterChainProxy works are as follows:

    public class FilterChainProxy implements Filter {  void doFilter(request, response, filterChain) {    // lookup all the Filters for this request List<Filter> ...