Sample application

Let's gets our hands dirty by doing some coding. We will start off with the most common authentication mechanisms and then get into other authentication mechanisms that can be used with Spring Security.

Base project setup

Apart from the actual authentication mechanism, many aspects of the application are quite similar. In this section, we will set up the example and then cover the specific authentication mechanism in detail.

We will be using the default Spring Security DB schema against which we will authenticate the user. We will create a fully fledged Spring MVC web application, with each component being created from scratch. Creating a sample Spring Security application using Spring MVC with the...