Spring MVC, Security and Web Services

Spring MVC Primer

• The WebApplicationContext and the ContextLoaderListener
• Model View Controller
• Front Controller Pattern
• DispatcherServlet Configuration –Java Config
• Controllers, RequestMapping
• Getting at the Request, @RequestParam, @RequestHeader, @CookieValue

Spring Security

• Authentication
  • The <http> Configuration
  • The <intercept-url> Constraint
  • The <form-login> Configuration
  • Login Form Design
  • “Remember Me”
  • Anonymous “Authentication”
  • Logout
  • The JDBC Authentication Provider
  • The Authentication/Authorization Schema
  • Using Hashed Passwords
  • Channel Security
  • Session Management
• URL Authorization
  • URL Authorization Overview
  • Programmatic Authorization: Servlets
  • Programmatic Authorization: Spring Security
  • Role-Based Presentation
  • The Spring Security Tag Library
• Under the Hood: Authentication
  • The Spring Security API
  • The Filter Chain
  • Authentication Manager and Providers
  • The Security Context
  • Implementing UserDetailsService
  • Connecting User Details to the Domain Model
• Under the Hood: Authorization
  • Authorization Overview
  • FilterSecurityInterceptor and Friends
  • The AccessDecisionManager
• URL Authorization
  • Method Authorization
  • Using Spring AOP
  • XML vs. Annotations

RESTful, Development using Spring Framework

• Core REST concepts and REST support in Spring 4.x
• Use Spring-MVC to create RESTful Web services and clients
• REST specific annotations in Spring
  • @ResponseBody and @RequestBody
    • Marshalling XML and JSON Objects
  • @PathVariable and URITemplates
• Low level client access with HttpClient
• Abstract client access with the RestTemplate
  • getForObject, postForEntity, exchange
  • UriComponentsBuilder and UriComponent
• CONNEG – contract negotiation
• Exchanging headers
• Data Exchange, XML, JSON
• Message Converters
• Spring 4 specifics – @RestController and AsyncRestTemplate
• Ajax invocation of Spring RESTful services

SOAP Web Services with Spring-WS (Optional)

• Web services best practices
• Contract First Web Services
• SOAP and WSDL
• Annotations – @Endpoint, @PayloadRoot, @RepsonsePayload, @RequestPayload
• JDOM, DOM and JAXB services – Configuration and Definition
• Publish a WSDL
• Client access with WebServiceTemplate
• Error handling