Pro Spring Security: Securing Spring Framework 6 and Boot 3-based Java Applications, 3rd Edition (2024) PDF
Build and deploy secure Spring Framework and Spring Boot-based enterprise Java applications with the Spring Security Framework. This book explores a comprehensive set of functionalities to implement industry-standard authentication and authorization mechanisms for Java applications. Pro Spring Security, Third Edition has been updated to incorporate the changes in Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3. It is an advanced tutorial and reference that guides you through the implementation of the security features for a Java web application by presenting consistent examples built from the ground up. This book also provides you with a broader look into Spring security by including up-to-date use cases such as building a security layer for RESTful web services and JSON Web Token applications.
The previous version of this book utilized Spring Security 5. Therefore, in this new edition of the book, it is very important to note the most important changes from version 5 to version 6. Spring Framework 6.0 was released on November 16, 2022. It came with a Java 17+ baseline and a move to Jakarta EE 9+ (in the Jakarta namespace), focusing on the recently released Jakarta EE 10 APIs such as Servlet 6.0 and JPA 3.1. Spring’s current version’s core building blocks of dependency injection and aspect-oriented programming widely apply to many business and infrastructure concerns. Certainly, application security can benefit from these core functionalities. Even in version 6, Spring Security is an application-level security framework built on top of the powerful Spring Framework that deals mainly with the core security concepts of authentication and authorization, which, also in version 6, are some of the fundamental functionalities of Spring Security.
