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Learning Spring Boot 3.0

You're reading from   Learning Spring Boot 3.0 Simplify the development of production-grade applications using Java and Spring

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233307
Length 270 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Greg L. Turnquist Greg L. Turnquist
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Basics of Spring Boot
2. Chapter 1: Core Features of Spring Boot FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2: Creating an Application with Spring Boot
4. Chapter 2: Creating a Web Application with Spring Boot 5. Chapter 3: Querying for Data with Spring Boot 6. Chapter 4: Securing an Application with Spring Boot 7. Chapter 5: Testing with Spring Boot 8. Part 3: Releasing an Application with Spring Boot
9. Chapter 6: Configuring an Application with Spring Boot 10. Chapter 7: Releasing an Application with Spring Boot 11. Chapter 8: Going Native with Spring Boot 12. Part 4: Scaling an Application with Spring Boot
13. Chapter 9: Writing Reactive Web Controllers 14. Chapter 10: Working with Data Reactively 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Swapping hardcoded users with a Spring Data-backed set of users

Creating a hardcoded set of users is great if we’re creating a demo (or writing a book!), but it’s no way to build a real, production-oriented application. Instead, it’s better to outsource user management to an external database.

By having the application reach out and authenticate against an external user source, it makes it possible for another team, such as our security engineering team, to manage the users through a completely different tool that manages that database.

Decoupling user management from user authentication is a great way to improve the security of the system. So, we’ll combine some of the techniques we learned in the previous chapter with the UserDetailsService interface we learned about in the previous section.

Since we already have Spring Data JPA and H2 on the classpath, we can start off by defining a JPA-based UserAcount domain object as follows:

@Entity
public...
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