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I've been doing some reading and I'm still not quite sure -- is Spring Security JAAS-based, or is it doing a thing of it's own? Could somebody please go into some more details and explain it to me, or maybe provide some useful links?

Thanks!

carlspring
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    No, it isn't build on JAAS. [This answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/694820/241990) provides a pretty good summary. If you want to secure something like a web application, for example, I'd recommend that you just forget that JAAS exists and you should be fine. – Shaun the Sheep Nov 18 '14 at 23:26

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Spring Security works in application layer, JAAS is a more low level authentication method.

But you can use JAAS as a authentication provider to Spring Security. http://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/3.1.7.RELEASE/reference/jaas.html

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