This chapter introduces access control lists (ACLs) in the context of Spring Security.
Access control lists can be considered an extension to the business-level security rules reviewed in Chapter 6. This chapter, however, looks at more fine-grained rules to secure individual domain objects instead of the relatively coarse-grained rules used to secure method calls on services.
This means that ACLs are in charge of securing instances of domain classes (such as a ...
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