Spring Security architecture

Spring Security is the security service solution for a J2EE-based enterprise production. This helps to develop a secured application in a faster and easier way with the use of its particular dependency-injection principles. To develop a secure J2EE-based enterprise application, Spring Security is an incredible and flexible authentication and authorization framework. Authentication is the process of checking the identity of a procedure or a client. On the other hand, authorization implies a procedure of checking the authority of a client to perform activities in the application.

Authentication

Authentication is the process that identifies a user or client based on their username and password. It...