In the last episode we established a simple form-based authentication with hardcoded credentials. Today, we take it step further and load user details from a database. Project Setup If you are new to this series on Spring Security and WebFlux, check my initial blog post to see how to start from scratch. Let’s add a…
This post looks at a standard form-based authentication and how it applies to Spring WebFlux. Follow along a complete working example and tweak the source code to your own liking. Project Setup The stack: Spring Boot Spring Security Kotlin + Gradle Java 11 Spring Boot allows you to easily build upon established libraries and provides…
Announcing a new series on securing reactive web applications. Started as an experiment and turned into a concise project showcasing some of the distinct features of the Spring Security framework. Join me on my weekly coding sessions on Sunday, tweak my code to your own needs, learn and have fun! In a nutshell: Spring Boot…
Up until Spring 4 generics played no major role when it came to resolving injected bean dependencies. Suppose there are multiple beans of the same type implementing a generic interface. In a pre-Spring 4 world, any attempt to resolve such a bean by type would inevitably lead to a NonUniqueBeanDefinition exception, unless additional hints were…
In this post, I will look into the distinction between a component and a bean. Even though both of them refer to Spring managed beans, each serves a different purpose. @Component and its specializations (@Controller, @Service and @Repository) allow for auto-detection using classpath scanning. @Bean on the other hand can only be used to explicitly…
Last time, when I talked about lazily loaded beans I forgot to mention one interesting feature of Spring 4 – lazily loaded injection points. This post introduces the combination of @Lazy and @Autowire as a counterpart to the standard approach (JSR-330) using @Inject and Provider. As of Spring 4.0 @Lazy can be applied on injection…