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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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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

Access Control Lists

In this chapter, we will address the complex topic of access control lists (ACL), which can provide a rich model of domain object instance-level authorization. Spring Security ships with a robust, but complicated, access control list module that can serve the needs of small to medium-sized implementations reasonably well.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the conceptual model of ACL
  • Reviewing the terminology and application of ACL concepts in the Spring Security ACL module
  • Building and reviewing the database schema required to support Spring ACL
  • Configuring JBCP calendar to use ACL secured business methods via annotations and Spring beans
  • Performing advanced configuration, including customized ACL permissions, ACL-enabled JSP tag checks and method security, mutable ACLs, and smart caching
  • Examining architectural considerations...
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