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Spring Security Alternatives
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Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official CVS src repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the tech@ mailing list.
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Spring Boot
Spring Boot helps you to create Spring-powered, production-grade applications and services with absolute minimum fuss.
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micrometer
An application observability facade for the most popular observability tools. Think SLF4J, but for observability.
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pac4j
Security engine for Java (authentication, authorization, multi frameworks): OAuth, CAS, SAML, OpenID Connect, LDAP, JWT...
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Nimbus JOSE+JWT
JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation for Java with support for signatures (JWS), encryption (JWE) and web keys (JWK).
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bcrypt
A Java standalone implementation of the bcrypt password hash function. Based on the Blowfish cipher it is the default password hash algorithm for OpenBSD and other systems including some Linux distributions. Includes a CLI Tool. (by patrickfav)
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better Spring Security alternative or higher similarity.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-24.
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March 2025 Java Key Updates in Boot, Security, and More
Comprehensive details are available in the release notes.
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Unveiling the Success Behind Spring Security: Open Source Business Models, Funding, and Community
At its core, Spring Security provides a comprehensive solution to secure Java applications, leveraging the principles of transparency and openness. Under the permissive Apache 2.0 License, the framework not only encourages widespread adoption but also supports modifications to meet evolving security demands. This strict adherence to open source best practices has attracted both individual developers and large enterprises, resulting in an ecosystem that thrives on mutual collaboration. The evolution of Spring Security is tightly interwoven with its funding strategy. The project benefits from a balanced model that integrates community contributions with significant corporate backing. Companies like VMware provide essential financial and strategic resources which help to ensure that the framework remains agile, innovative, and resilient against emerging security challenges. At the same time, the strong engagement on platforms such as GitHub has been instrumental in driving rapid development and continuous improvement.
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Spring Authorization server + spring security with custom user details service for flexible data-driven authentication
Diving into the details of every filter in the chain would take us too far, but here are explanations for a few key filters. For a deeper understanding of the others, you can explore Spring Security’s source code.
- What Okta Bcrypt incident can teach us about designing better APIs
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OAuth 2 Token Exchange with Spring Security and Keycloak
It took me several days to get it working! I got the idea from Spring Security project issue discussion, and Keycloak documentation.
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Spring Security private_key_jwt with AWS KMS
Spring security has long had great OAuth2.0 support from both the server and client elements. Recently spring security added support for the private_key_jwt client authentication method as part of the authorization code grant flow. Spring Security GitHub ref
- Issue since upgrading to Spring Boot 3 - 2: cannot access H2-console
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Spring with java vs Spring with kotlin
To be fair there were quite some unexpected surprises in the past with Spring and Kotlin (e.g. the Cachable annotation did not work with suspend functions, not all Spring security annotations were supported with coroutines), but most of them were ironed out already.
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Spring Security WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter deprecated
They recently updated all the examples in the javadocs if you wanna bump your Spring Security version to 5.7.3 (see here). Otherwise the reference docs all reflect the non-deprecated approach that uses SecurityFilterChain and supporting beans.
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🎀 Spring Boot 2.7.0 Released
Spring Security 5.7
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spring-projects/spring-security is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Spring Security is Java.
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