Tag Archives: Spring Security

On a previous post we used the user details service in order to provide a way to load our data from a function based on a username given. The implementation of the user details might be backed by an in-memory mechanism, a sql/no-sql database etc. The options are unlimited. What we have to pay attention when it comes to password ...

“I love writing authentication and authorization code.” ~ No Java Developer Ever. Tired of building the same login screens over and over? Try the Okta API for hosted authentication, authorization, and multi-factor auth. Every developer wants to build faster and more efficiently, to support scale. Building a microservices architecture with Spring can add resilience and elasticity to your architecture that ...

As we have seen on a previous post the username and password for our spring application was configured through environmental variables. This is ok for prototype purposes however in real life scenarios we have to provide another way to make the users eligible to login to the application. To do so we use the UserDetailsService Interface. The user details service ...

Spring security is a great framework saving lots of time and effort from the developers. Also It is flexible enough to customize and bring it down to your needs. As spring evolves spring security involves too making it easier and more bootstrapping to setup up security in you project. Spring Boot 2.0 is out there and we will take advantage ...

LDAP authentication is one of the most popular authentication mechanism around the world for enterprise application and Active directory (an LDAP implementation by Microsoft for Windows) is another widely used LDAP server. In many projects, we need to authenticate against active directory using LDAP by credentials provided in the login screen. Sometimes this simple task gets tricky because of various ...

If you don’t know, Spring security can limit the number of sessions a user can have. If you are developing a web application especially a secure web application in Java JEE then you must have come up with the requirement similar to online banking portals have e.g. only one session per user at a time or no concurrent session per user. Even ...

1. Introduction In this post, we shall demonstrate how to use Maven dependencies for Spring Security for very specific use-cases. The latest versions of all the libraries we use can be found on the Maven Central. Understanding how Maven dependencies work and are managed is important in a project for an effective build cycle and clear concepts about what versions ...

“I love writing authentication and authorization code.” ~ No Java Developer Ever. Tired of building the same login screens over and over? Try the Okta API for hosted authentication, authorization, and multi-factor auth. Spring Security is not just a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework, it is also the de-facto standard for securing Spring-based applications. Once upon a ...

Welcome to angular5 jwt authentication with spring security.In this tutorial, we will be creating a full stack app using jwt authentication in an angular5 single page application having backened server supported by spring boot with integration of spring security.Having said that we will have a sample angular5 example application with HttpInterceptor integrated with it to intercept all the HTTP request ...