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You're reading from Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications Learn effective ways to secure your applications with Spring and Spring WebFlux

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788995979

Length 268 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Spring

Concepts

Reactive Programming

Author (1):

Tomcy John

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

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

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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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Authors (1)

John

Tomcy John lives in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), hailing from Kerala (India), and is an enterprise Java specialist with a degree in Engineering (B Tech) and over 14 years of experience in several industries. He's currently working as principal architect at Emirates Group IT, in their core architecture team. Prior to this, he worked with Oracle Corporation and Ernst & Young. His main specialization is in building enterprise-grade applications and he acts as chief mentor and evangelist to facilitate incorporating new technologies as corporate standards in the organization. Outside of his work, Tomcy works very closely with young developers and engineers as mentors and speaks at various forums as a technical evangelist on many topics ranging from web and middleware all the way to various persistence stores.

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