Pacific Northwest Software Symposium

April 18 - 20, 2008 - Seattle, WA


Sheraton Bellevue
100 112th Avenue NE
Bellevue, WA   98004
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A (re)introduction to Spring Security

Spring Security (formerly known as Acegi Security) is a very powerful and flexible security framework for Java. Based on the Spring Framework, Spring Security provides declarative method and web level security including a wealth of options for meeting your application's specific security needs.

Despite Spring Security's great power and flexibility, it has historically been overly complex and difficult to configure. But all that has changed with the release of Spring Security 2. This new incarnation of Spring Security brings adds simplicity to power.

In this session, we'll explore the Spring Security framework and see how easy it is to use the new configuration elements and annotations to enable security in Java based applications.


About Craig Walls

Craig Walls is a senior engineer with SpringSource as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (both published by Manning) and Modular Java (published by Pragmatic Bookshelf). He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 2 birds and 3 dogs.

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