January 2017

Monthly Archives

  • Spring Boot and Login Listener

    There are many situations when we are required to listen for successful login event. To store last login information, to manage some post login account handling … it’s quite easy to do by following Spring Boot way. Spring Boot internals gather application listener beans (we must inherit ApplicationListener<InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent> here and annotate as @Component) during startup. […]

  • Spring Boot: Active Directory authentication

    Spring Boot offers a wide range of authentication options through Spring Security module. We usually use custom authentication code that finds username/password in database (preferring MongoDB) and do proper authentication. In some cases, based on company accounts handling culture, there is a request to authenticate users based on existing Active Directory accounts. When digging around […]