Spring Framework: Authenticating Users with Spring Security

This Spring Security tutorial covers fundamentals from what Spring Security is, to how you can effectively secure your Java apps.

This course covers all of the fundamentals of Spring Security. It covers securing your app, user storage in memory and in a database, authentication against ldap and authorization against a database, updated hashing algorithms for password storage, customizing the UI, method level security as well as method level permissions, and new techniques for accessing the current logged in user.

Topics:

• Course Overview
• Configuring an Application to Use Spring Security
• Securing Your Spring MVC Application
• Configuring Spring Security to Use a Database
• Authenticating Users Against LDAP
• Customizing the Spring Security Object
• Creating a Custom Login Page for Spring Security
• Creating a Custom Registration Process for Spring Security
• Handling a Forgotten Password in Spring Security
• Securing Methods in Spring Security
• Securing UI Elements Using Spring Security