Can I use Spring Social with Spring Security?

Question

I want to integrate Spring Social (provide twitter, facebook, linkedLogin) with my application, in which I have already used Spring Security to provide open identity identification ....

Spring Open Access Security Support works amazingly, and I tried Spring Social with a sample application too ... Now I want to integrate Spring Social with the original product. I want to know if this will work or not.? Is Spring Security fully compatible with Spring social?

If yes, then how do I need to process the login, log out of the Spring social zone. What precautions should I take.?

Any blog / tutorial / source code will be very useful ....

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

I used both of them in the project 2 months ago, and they both work well together. Spring Social should not give you any problems, because you request information on other sites (providers) without processing any authentication that does not belong to you.

The only tricky part is if you want to be an oAuth / oAuth2 service provider (so that other websites can click / retrieve information from your website, you provide an API for the customer website). The documentation is confusing, but it affects a separate namespace configured in the Spring security file, coexisting without overlapping with the rest of the application namespaces (a few "http" elements in your XML, some of them may be protected by OpenID - since Facebook will protect the form for sending updates status from another site: "do you allow example.com to publish updates?", others are publicly available - as a login form used to protect the previous action).