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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 6. REST API Security

Spring Security can be used to secure REST APIs. This chapter begins with the introduction of some of the important concepts in regard to REST and the JWT.

The chapter then introduces OAuth concepts and by using hands-on coding examples, explains simple and advanced REST API security utilizing the Spring Security and Spring Boot modules in the Spring Framework.

We will be using the OAuth protocol in our examples to secure exposed REST API's utilizing Spring Security features to the fullest. We will be using the JWT to exchange claims between the server and client.

In this chapter, we will cover the following concepts:

  • Modern application architecture
  • Reactive REST API
  • Simple REST API security
  • Advanced REST API security
  • Spring Security OAuth project
  • OAuth2 and Spring WebFlux
  • Spring Boot and OAuth2