Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use Spring Security with confidence. First, we covered what Spring Security is as well as its architecture. We also learned about the advantage of using Spring Security, looking at its features and modules. Now, we're able to implement Spring Security in any project. We learned what the basic authentication is and, using an example, we saw how to implement the basic authentication in a project as well as how to secure the resources in a server. We also learned how to create a secured REST API. Then we learned how to create a client application in Android to fetch and use the protected resources from the REST API. We also learned how to implement a username and password to get access to the basic authentication-based secured server. In addition, we familiarized ourselves with how to use a custom adapter in a listview in the client...