Configuring Spring Security for your application

Roo supports configuring Spring Security for your application via security setup command. In this recipe, we'll look at the security related configurations added to your application by Roo when you execute the security setup command. In the next recipe, Using Spring Security with Apache Directory Server, we'll look at how we can extend the Spring Security configuration to use Apache Directory Server for addressing security requirements of a Roo-generated web application and how to incorporate method-level security.

Getting ready

Create a sub-directory ch06-security inside the C:\roo-cookbook directory.

Copy the ch06_web_app_security.roo script into the ch06-security directory.

Execute the ch06_web_app_security.roo script, which creates the flightapp-web Roo project, sets up Hibernate as persistence provider, configures MySQL as the database for the application, creates Flight, FlightDescription, and Booking JPA entities, defines a many-to-one...