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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

Important concepts

Before getting into coding, we need to be conversant with some important concepts. This section is aimed at introducing you to some of these concepts in detail.

REST

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style presented by Roy Fielding in the year 2000 for developing web services. It is built on top of the well-known Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and can transfer data in multiple formats, the most common being JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML). The status of a request in REST is indicated using standard HTTP status code (200: OK, 404: Page not found!, and so on). Being based on HTTP, security is taken care of using the already familiar...

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