Spring Security
Spring Security is a powerful and customizable authentication and access-control framework for Java applications. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for securing applications, focusing on both authentication (verifying the identity of a user) and authorization (determining what resources the user can access). Key Concepts in Spring Security Authentication : UserDetailsService : An interface used to load user-specific data. It provides a method loadUserByUsername(String username) that returns a UserDetails object. AuthenticationManager : The central interface for authentication in Spring Security. It authenticates a given Authentication object. AuthenticationProvider : A component that performs authentication logic. It typically uses a UserDetailsService to load user data and verify credentials. SecurityContext : Holds the Authentication object, which contains the principal (user), credentials, and granted authorities (roles/permissions). Authorization : GrantedAuthori...