Spring Security
Spring Security is a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. It is the de-facto standard for securing Spring-based applications.
Spring Security is a framework that focuses on providing both authentication and authorization to Java applications. Like all Spring projects, the real power of Spring Security is found in how easily it can be extended to meet custom requirements
Quick start
Bootstrap your application with
Spring Initializr.
Documentation
Each Spring project has its own; it explains in great details how
you can use project features and what you can achieve with them.
| 5.2.0 M3 PRE | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| 5.2.0 SNAPSHOT | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| 5.1.6 SNAPSHOT | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| 5.1.5 GA | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| 5.0.13 SNAPSHOT | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| 5.0.12 GA | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| 4.2.13 SNAPSHOT | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
| 4.2.12 GA | Reference Doc. | API Doc. |
Guides
Designed to be completed in 15-30 minutes, a guide provides quick,
hands-on instructions for building a starter app for any development
task with Spring.
Topics
Designed to be read and comprehended in an hour or less, providing more wide-ranging or subjective content than a getting started guide.