Pro Spring Security: Securing Spring Framework 5 and Boot 2-based Java Applications

© Carlo Scarioni and Massimo Nardone 2019

C. Scarioni, M. NardonePro Spring Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5052-5_3

3. Setting Up the Scene

Carlo Scarioni¹  and Massimo Nardone²

(1)

Surbiton, UK

(2)

HELSINKI, Finland

 

This chapter will guide you through the process of building your first simple Spring Security v5 project using the IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition 2019.2. This involves the following steps:

1. 1.

   Setting up the development environment

    
2. 2.

   Creating a new Java Web Application project without Spring Security

    
3. 3.

   Updating the project with Spring Security

    
4. 4.

   Running the example

    

Let’s start with setting up the development environment.

Setting Up the Development Environment

Here’s the list of software you’ll need to download and install in the ...