Spring Security

Modules

Core - spring-security-core.jar

• Contains core authentication and access-contol classes and interfaces, remoting support and basic provisioning APIs
• Required by any application which uses Spring Security
• Supports standalone applications, remote clients, method (service layer) security and JDBC user provisioning

Web - spring-security-web.jar

• Contains filters and related web-security infrastructure code
• You'll need it if you require Spring Security web authentication services and URL-based access-control.

LDAP

ACL

CAS

Authentication

Authorization

Roles & Permissions

Role hierarchy