Spring Security with Spring Social to access Twitter

We just now connected with Facebook and were able to post messages. In this section, we will see how to connect to Twitter. Let's use the same application that we used for Facebook with derby database and hibernate the authentication service.

Getting ready

You will need to perform the following tasks to access Twitter with Spring Social using Spring Security:

• Create a Twitter app: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new

• Add the consumer ID and key to the .properties file.

• Update the controller to handle Twitter requests

• Create JSP files to access and display Twitter objects

How to do it...

The following is the step for implementing Twitter sign-in options in the application demonstrated in the previous section:

1. Update the controller named HorrorMovie Controller to handle Twitter requests.

   < @RequestMapping(value = "/posttofb", method = RequestMethod.GET)
     public String posttofb(String message, ModelMap model) {
       try {
         Facebook facebook =...