Configuring Spring Security 5.x

With regard to easy feature or module integration, Spring Boot 2.0 provides an easier way to integrate Spring Security to the application. This recipe will showcase how to apply the new Spring Security 5 to a reactive web application.

Getting started

Open the Spring Boot ch09 project and add the Spring Security 5 module into the existing application.

How to do it...

Let us now start applying security context to the previous reactive application through these steps:

1. Open pom.xml and add the following starter POM for Spring Security 5:

<dependency> 
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> 
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId> 
</dependency> 

2. Create a new package org.packt.spring.boot.security and drop into it the same security context definition AppSecurityConfig from ch08.
3. Avoid registering DelegatingFilterProxy into the container since Spring Boot does it automatically by injecting org.springframework...