Security with Spring
Last modified: August 9, 2019
The Security with Spring tutorials focus, as you'd expect, on Spring Security.
Get started with the Registration series if you're interested in building a registration flow, and understanding some of the frameworks basics.
Then, explore the topics you're most interested in, related to security.
Finally, have a look at some of the more advanced topics, such as the OAuth support.
Core Spring Security
OAuth2 with Spring Security
Spring Security with REST
Other Spring Tutorials
The entire tutorial in based on this github project. Watch and fork it at will - the project can be used as a starting point for a more full fledged implementation.
If you have a few years of Linux experience, and you're interested in sharing that with the community (and getting paid for your work of course), have a look at the "Write for Us" page. Cheers. Eugen
great website! but could you check the link behind “Spring Security – security none… etc”? Seems to point at the wrong page.
Yet it did – nice catch – thanks (fixed now).
Hi Euge, I read the book “REST services withspring”, and it’s very good to start with the concept of spring security, but I don’t found how did the autentication that I want, maybe you can give me some advice. I want that the first time that the user try to use some API that needed autentication, it should send the user and password and the aplication goes to deliver to they a token. After that, always that the user use some other operation (API), it needed send to the aplication the token that was delivered with the initial response. ¿Exist… Read more »
Hey Juan, There are a few things to keep in mind here. What you are describing is exactly the concept of the cookie – which is the standard way to handle authentication for a standard web application. Now – if you are securing a REST Service (as opposed to – the standard Spring MVC web app), then it depends how much you care about the RESTful nature of your solution. If you want to be RESTful – then the cookie solution will not do well – because you will be relying on the STATE of the server, whereas for REST… Read more »
Thank Euge,
That article show me how configure the behavior to work with the cookie,but in fact i was looking for the way to do mi API as RESTfull, because the use of cookie in movile aplication, in some occasion maybe can be dificult. In this way if I send the tooken to the client, and this send me it I don’t need use a cookie.
independently of this, do you know some way to do that?, of maybe is necesary make a my own AutenticationManager?
Thanks!
So – how is the token you’re thinking of any different than a cookie? As far as I can see – the token is the cookie. Now – sure, you can do a custom token if you would like to – and yes, in that case you will have to get a bit deeper into the Spring Security configuration – but why reinvent the cookie mechanism?
Thank you for the great tutorials Eugen, they really help me understand these topics better. I wonder if you consider putting a Spring Security tutorial for using custom roles? For example, instead of USER & ADMIN, what if I wanted a hierarchical approach with customer roles like this (top-down): ADMIN, OWNER, MANAGER, RECEPTIONIST, VISITOR.
I have seen old Spring Security code snippets about custom role names. But I have yet to see one that shows from configuration, to database seeding, to authentication.
Thanks again for the great help you provide.
Hey Sonoerin – yes, a more complex Role-Privilege model is actually implemented in my REST project on github. Thanks for the suggestion, I might write about that sometime soon. Cheers,
Eugen.
nice tutorial Eugen..but i wonder perhpas u got project on github about dynamic url for spring security..
how to create user management UI ?
Hey Joxers,
That’s something I do have on my TODO list to write about, but it may be further out, perhaps a couple of months. Cheers,
Eugen.