Spring WS plugin for Grails version 0.5.0, with WS-Security support, is released
So good we jumped a couple of version numbers...
But seriously, this is a major release for the Spring Web Services plugin for Grails. We, well Tareq specifically, have put a ton of work in to incorporate a means of securing endpoints using WS-Security while keeping things as friendly and simple as you'd expect from your Grails development environment.
As well as providing a simple convention-driven approach for declaring secure web service endpoints, we've also implemented a new feature in the endpoint functional tests that makes it as simple as ever to then consume and functionally test your new secure web services. All you need to do is use the withSecuredEndpointRequest closure-sample provided in the plugin's source code and Tareq's blog entry-with an appropriate WS-Security configuration (using the same DSL as the server side endpoint's configuration) and you're good to go!
Enjoy!
/Russ
About Russell Miles
A self-confessed polyglot programmer, Russ Miles is a senior consultant for SpringSource in the UK where he works with various companies to help them take full advantage of the Spring Framework. To ensure that he has as little spare time as possible, Russ contributes to various open source projects and has authored a number of books.
Russ is a keen contributor to open source projects and an author for O'Reilly Media. He has authored and co-authored 3 books; "AspectJ Cookbook", "Learning UML 2.0" and "Head First Software Development"
Prior to joining SpringSource, Russ gained experience of enterprise development throughout all tiers of application architecture including high performance and usability presentation tier services for the Search and Mobile Portal industries right through to maximum availability application and data services for the Defence industry.
Russ holds an MSc. Software Engineering from Oxford University.
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