Introducing Spring Security 3
Spring Security is a popular, open-source Java security framework that represents the Spring portfolio's official security capability. It has received hundreds of thousands of downloads, been ported to other platforms (such as Python and Microsoft .NET) and represents a popular choice in many banking, government, and military installations.
This session presents practical solutions for addressing today's complex enterprise application security requirements using Spring Security. It takes attendees on a step-by-step journey that begins with the simple security requirement of a login form, and grows to include more advanced requirements such as web request authorization, single sign on and federated identity, advanced method authorization, plus rich client security considerations. Many of the exciting new features in Spring Security 3 (such as Spring Framework 3-powered expression language authorization) will also be covered.
This session promises to be intensely demonstration-oriented, with at least five separate live demonstrations and code discussions. As such, you will not only discover the important architectural concepts and standards applicable to enterprise application security, but you'll also receive plenty of practical tips and solid advice on using this powerful and flexible security framework.
About Ben Alex
Dr Ben Alex is a Principal Software Engineer with SpringSource, and has been working professionally in software since 1995. Ben founded the Spring Security project in 2003 and led its development into a popular, open-source security framework that is used in numerous government, banking and military installations. More recently Ben founded and serves as lead of the Spring Roo and Spring Shell projects, both of which deliver significant productivity and usability benefits to those using Spring technologies.
Ben's career history also includes other roles in software development and business. From 2005 until 2008, he led the establishment and exponential growth of SpringSource's operations in Asia-Pacific. Prior to SpringSource, Ben founded and grew a successful Australian software company, Acegi Technology Pty Limited. He has been a director and advisor to businesses in diverse industries including business services, intellectual property licensing and ecommerce.
In recent years, Ben has presented at technology conferences including JavaOne, The Server Side Java Symposium, JAOO, Oredev, SpringOne and The Spring Experience. He is a regular guest presenter at user groups across the world, with recent appearances in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Singapore, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Stockholm. He also authored the security chapter of the Wiley book, "Professional J2EE Development with Spring Framework," and maintains a blog at http://blog.springsource.com/main/author/bena/.
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