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Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

By : René Enríquez, Alberto Salazar
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Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

By: René Enríquez, Alberto Salazar

Overview of this book

Spring 5 and its ecosystem can be used to build robust architectures effectively. Software architecture is the underlying piece that helps us accomplish our business goals whilst supporting the features that a product demands. This book explains in detail how to choose the right architecture and apply best practices during your software development cycle to avoid technical debt and support every business requirement. Choosing the right architecture model to support your business requirements is one of the key decisions you need to take when a new product is being created from scratch or is being refactored to support new business demands. This book gives you insights into the most common architectural models and guides you when and where they can be used. During this journey, you’ll see cutting-edge technologies surrounding the Spring products, and understand how to use agile techniques such as DevOps and continuous delivery to take your software to production effectively. By the end of this book, you’ll not only know the ins and outs of Spring, but also be able to make critical design decisions that surpass your clients’ expectations.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Authentication and authorization as a service


We will be using Auth0 as the provider of a platform for authentication and authorization as a service. We will create an example of this to secure our application; you don't have to be a security guru to achieve this.The following screenshot was borrowed from the Auth0 getting started guide:

Auth0 authentication and identity validation process

After we plug in or connect to Auth0, this will be the authentication and authorization server used to verify their identity and send the required information back to the application each time a user tries to authenticate.

Note

We are not limited to Java; Auth0 provides several SDKs and APIs for different technologies and languages.

The steps to create an example of authentication and authorization as a service using Auth0 are as follows:

  1. Create your free developer account in Auth0 at https://auth0.com/.
  2. Log in to the Auth0 portal and create an application:

Auth0 create application

  1. Give a name to the application...