Securing the Place Reviewer backend

Similar to how we went about securing the Messenger API in Chapter 4, Designing and Implementing the Messenger Backend with Spring Boot 2.0, we shall utilize Spring Security to secure the Place Reviewer backend. Regardless of the utilization of Spring Security here, there is a slight variation to the way we are going to go about securing our application. In Chapter 4, Designing and Implementing the Messenger Backend with Spring Boot 2.0, we configured Spring Security to rely explicitly on JSON web tokens for the authorization of client applications. This time, we will rely solely on the power of Spring Security. In doing so, we will not make use of any other technology, such as JSON web tokens. Without ...

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