Spring security tag lib

To do Spring security Client Integration, we will be decorating our existing JSP pages with Spring security tag library.

1. Add the spring tag-lib

below code at the top of our existing JSP ( home.jsp from Spring MVC tutorial )

<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags" prefix="sec" %>

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There are three tags that are very important for the purpose of this tutorial to discuss.

authorise : Used to determine whether the contents within this element should be evaluated or not.

authentication: Used primarily to gain access to the object that represents the current logged in user

accesscontrollist: This is used when working with access controls or which are commonly known as “akles”.

2. Lets add the Spring tag lib dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>