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Building Applications with Spring 5 and Kotlin

By : Miloš Vasić
Book Image

Building Applications with Spring 5 and Kotlin

By: Miloš Vasić

Overview of this book

Kotlin is being used widely by developers because of its light weight, built-in null safety, and functional and reactive programming aspects. Kotlin shares the same pragmatic, innovative and opinionated mindset as Spring, so they work well together. Spring when combined with Kotlin helps you to reach a new level of productivity. This combination has helped developers to create Functional Applications using both the tools together. This book will teach you how to take advantage of these developments and build robust, scalable and reactive applications with ease. In this book, you will begin with an introduction to Spring and its setup with Kotlin. You will then dive into assessing the design considerations of your application. Then you will learn to use Spring (with Spring Boot) along with Kotlin to build a robust backend in a microservice architecture with a REST based collaboration, and leverage Project Reactor in your application. You’ll then learn how to integrate Spring Data and Spring Cloud to manage configurations for database interaction and cloud deployment. You’ll also learn to use Spring Security to beef up security of your application before testing it with the JUnit framework and then deploying it on a cloud platform like AWS.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Securing Spring Cloud services

In this section, we will secure our Spring Cloud configuration and for simplicity purposes, temporarily free the Journaler API from security limits. We will demonstrate the basic principles of securing microservices and guide you step by step in achieving this.

Each of our modules must support Spring Security and Spring sessions. For that purpose, extend each build.gradle configuration with Spring Security and Spring session support dependencies:

...  
dependencies { 
    compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security' 
} 
...  

We will store all of our sessions in memory. For that purpose, we will use the Redis in-memory database. We have to extend each of our applications to support it by extending build.gradle with the following dependency:

...  
dependencies { 
    compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter...