Spring Security Kerberos/SPNEGO Extension
We're pleased to announce that the first milestone of the Spring Security Kerberos Extension is now available for download. The release is also available through the Maven milestone repository at http://maven.springframework.org/milestone. With the Spring Security Kerberos Extension, your users are authenticated against your web application just by opening the URL. There is no need to Read more…
Exploring Roo's Architecture
Last month we discovered how easy it is to build a fully-fledged enterprise application in just a few minutes using Spring Roo – our new productivity tool for Java developers. While many Java developers have already started evaluating Roo to help save time on their projects, I've received a lot of questions from people curious Read more…
Spring Security 3.0.0.M1 Released
We're pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Security 3.0 is now available for download. The release is also available through the Maven milestone repository at http://maven.springframework.org/milestone. As with Spring 3.0, this is the first release which requires a minimum JDK 1.5 to run and also require Spring 3.0, so you should get Read more…
Getting Started with Spring Roo
Update: The third installment of the "Introducing Spring Roo" blog series is now available and covers Roo's internal architecture in detail. I have a confession to make. While many of you would know I've been busily working away on Spring Roo in recent months, I also have a separate project that hasn't made it into Read more…
Jump into Roo for extreme Java productivity
Update: The second installment of the "Introducing Spring Roo" blog series is now available and includes a detailed step-by-step tutorial to help you get started with Roo. The third installment covers Roo's internal architecture in detail. The twittersphere has been abuzz this week with news from SpringOne Europe. One announcement generating a significant amount of Read more…
Spring Security customization (Part 2 – Adjusting secured session in real time)
Imagine you are in the secured session (you are logged on and are authorized to access a particular resource), but your security infrastructure team has updated your rights and privileges. Perhaps you were given more rights and privileges or perhaps your rights were completely revoked. . . The problem is that your secured session is Read more…
Spring Security customization (Part 1 – Customizing UserDetails or extending GrantedAuthority)
This is the first part of what I hope will become a multipart series of small posts showing practical examples around Spring Security customization. The requirements for these customizations are not imaginary and all came from the field. . . Assume you have the following requirement. You have a list of roles where each role Read more…
Why the name Acegi?
Between Rod's recent blog on the origins of the Interface name, a recent thread querying the renaming of Acegi Security, and a suggestion late last year from my colleague Ben Hale to blog about the origins of the "Acegi" name, I've decided that it's probably time to do so! First of all, the pronunciation: it's Read more…
What's New and Cool in Spring 2.0?
Last month Rod Johnson presented at three Australian Spring User Group meetings a session entitled, "What's New and Cool in Spring 2.0". Rod mentioned during those meetings that I'd make his presentation available, so here it is. There are some other recent presentations that people have also been emailing me about. In no particular order, Read more…
