Java-Based Spring Security Configuration

Internal

• Spring Security Concepts

Overview

This article describes Java-based Spring Security configuration. This method can be used to configure the following security aspects:

• one of the available user stores, such as the in-memory user store, JDBC user store or LDAP-backed user store, or alternatively, a custom user details service.

Configuration Class

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableWebSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter;

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class SecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

  @Override
  protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
    ...
  }
}