Chapter 5
- Spring Security provides security services for Java-based web applications.
- You have to add the Spring Security starter package dependency to your
pom.xml
file. You can configure Spring Security by creating a security configuration class. - JWT (short for JSON Web Token) is a compact way to implement authentication in modern web applications. The size of the token is small, and so it can be sent in the URL, either in the
POST
parameter or inside the header. - You can use the Java JWT library—that is, the JSON web token library for Java. The authentication service class adds and reads the token. The filter classes handle the login and authentication process.
- You have to add the Spring Boot test starter package to your
pom.xml
file. The Spring Boot test starter package provides a lot of nice testing utilities—for example, JUnit, AssertJ, and Mockito. When using the JUnit, the basic test classes are annotated with the@SpringBootTest
annotation...