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Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

By : Tomcy John
Book Image

Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

By: Tomcy John

Overview of this book

Spring Security enables developers to seamlessly integrate authorization, authentication, and a range of security features for complex enterprise applications. This book provides a hands-on approach to developing reactive applications using Spring and will help you get up and running in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, the book begins by explaining the essential concepts of reactive programming, Spring Framework, and Spring Security. You’ll then learn about a variety of authentication mechanisms and how to integrate them easily with a Spring MVC application. You’ll also understand how to achieve authorization in a Spring WebFlux application using Spring Security. Furthermore, the book will take you through the configuration required to implement OAuth2 for securing REST APIs, and guide you in integrating security in microservices and serverless applications. Finally, you’ll be able to augment add-ons that will enhance any Spring Security module. By the end of the book, you’ll be equipped to integrate Spring Security into your Java enterprise applications proficiently.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Authentication Using SAML, LDAP, and OAuth/OIDC

In this chapter, we will look at the authentication mechanisms—namely SAML, LDAP, and OAuth/OIDC—supported by Spring Security. This will be a fully hands-on coding chapter. We will build small applications, most of them starting from the base application that we built in Chapter 2Deep Diving into Spring Security.

The main goal of this chapter is to make you comfortable with implementing the authentication mechanisms most commonly used across your organization, and also to showcase Spring Security module capabilities.

Each of the authentication mechanisms has a project that you can see in the book's GitHub page. However, in the book, we will only cover important aspects of the sample code, to reduce clutter within the chapter.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Security Assertion Markup Language
  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  • OAuth2 and OpenID Connect