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Spring Security

You're reading from   Spring Security Secure your web applications, RESTful services, and microservice architectures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129511
Length 542 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Robert Winch Robert Winch
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Peter Mularien Peter Mularien
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Mick Knutson Mick Knutson
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Preface 1. Anatomy of an Unsafe Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Spring Security 3. Custom Authentication 4. JDBC-Based Authentication 5. Authentication with Spring Data 6. LDAP Directory Services 7. Remember-Me Services 8. Client Certificate Authentication with TLS 9. Opening up to OAuth 2 10. Single Sign-On with the Central Authentication Service 11. Fine-Grained Access Control 12. Access Control Lists 13. Custom Authorization 14. Session Management 15. Additional Spring Security Features 16. Migration to Spring Security 4.2 17. Microservice Security with OAuth 2 and JSON Web Tokens 18. Additional Reference Material

Microservices client

We start our new client application by enabling this application as an OAuth 2 client with the addition of the @EnableOAuth2Client annotation. The addition of the @EnableOAuth2Client annotation will allow this application to retrieve and use authorization code grants from one or more OAuth2 authorization server. Client applications that use client credential grants do not need AccessTokenRequest or the scoped RestOperations (the state is global for the applications), but they should still use the filter to trigger OAuth2RestOperations to obtain a token when necessary. Applications that use password grants need to set the authentication properties in OAuth2ProtectedResourceDetails before using the RestOperations method, which we will configure shortly. Let's take a look at the following steps and see how it is done:

  1. We need to set up a few properties...
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