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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788995979
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reactive support in Spring 5

Spring Framework 5 has extensive support for a reactive programming paradigm. Many of the modules have embraced this concept with both hands and are making it a first-class citizen. The following diagram summarizes the Spring 5 support of reactive:

Figure 4: Spring 5 and reactive support

Spring WebFlux module is a full-fledged web application framework built on top of a reactive programming paradigm (it uses Reactor and RxJava). Some of the early adopters of reactive programming in the Spring/Java ecosystem were Spring Data, Spring Security, and Thymeleaf. Spring Security has a number of features that supports reactive programming.

Spring Data has reactive support for Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, and Cassandra. It also supports infinite streams (records emitted one by one in the form of a stream) from the database with @Tailable. JDBC inherently is...

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