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