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Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

You're reading from Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications Learn effective ways to secure your applications with Spring and Spring WebFlux

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788995979

Length 268 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Reactive Programming

Author (1):

John

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. Overview of Spring 5 and Spring Security 5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Deep Diving into Spring Security

3. Authentication Using SAML, LDAP, and OAuth/OIDC

4. Authentication Using CAS and JAAS

5. Integrating with Spring WebFlux

6. REST API Security

7. Spring Security Add-Ons

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Index

Sample project

In our sample project, we will set up our own authorization server, against which we will authorize the APIs exposed through our resource server. We have movie APIs exposed on our resource server, and the client application will authenticate with the application (the client application is Spring Security protected) and then try accessing one of the movie APIs, at which point the OAuth flow will kick in. After a successful authorization check with the authorization server, the client will be given access to the requested movie APIs.

We will have a parent project containing three Spring Boot projects: oauth-authorization-server, oauth-resource-server, and oauth-client-app:

Figure 11: Project structure in IntelliJ

We will now look at each of the individual Spring Boot projects in the subsequent sections. The full source code is available on the book's GitHub page under the spring-boot-spring-security-oauth project.

Authorization server

This is a conventional Spring Boot project,...

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Authors (1)

John

John

Tomcy John lives in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), hailing from Kerala (India), and is an enterprise Java specialist with a degree in Engineering (B Tech) and over 14 years of experience in several industries. He's currently working as principal architect at Emirates Group IT, in their core architecture team. Prior to this, he worked with Oracle Corporation and Ernst & Young. His main specialization is in building enterprise-grade applications and he acts as chief mentor and evangelist to facilitate incorporating new technologies as corporate standards in the organization. Outside of his work, Tomcy works very closely with young developers and engineers as mentors and speaks at various forums as a technical evangelist on many topics ranging from web and middleware all the way to various persistence stores.

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