Security for Java applications was always a pain for developers, especially in Java Enterprise Edition. There was a lot of boilerplate code to look up objects in the application servers, and the security layer was often heavily customized for the application.
In that chaotic scenario, the Spring Team decided to create a Spring Security project to help developers handle the security layer on the Java application.
In the beginning, the project had extensive support for Java Enterprise Edition and integration with EJB 3 security annotations. Nowadays, the project supports many different ways to handle authorization and authentication for Java applications.
Spring Security provides a comprehensive model to add authorization and ...
