Demystifying Spring Security in Grails

The Spring Security (Acegi) plugin for Grails has gotten a bad rap. Earlier versions of the plugin and the Acegi framework were somewhat cumbersome to use but new features in Spring Security 2.0 and lots of enhancements and features in the Grails plugin have made securing your Grails apps easy.

This talk will demonstrate getting started with the Spring Security plugin and also show how easy it is to add Basic Authentication, LDAP, and even OpenID and Facebook authentication to an application. We'll also look at the various configuration options and extension points for when you need to customize beyond the standard configuration.

About Burt Beckwith

Burt Beckwith is a Java and Groovy developer with over ten years of experience in a variety of industries including biotech, travel, e-learning, social networking, and financial services. For the past three years he's been working with Grails and Groovy full-time. Along the way he's created over fifteen Grails plugins and made significant contributions to several others. He was the technical editor for Grails in Action.

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