Spring security maven dependency

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spring-security-core

It contains authentication and access control functionality.


    3.2.3.RELEASE
    4.0.4.RELEASE


    org.springframework.security
    spring-security-core
    ${org.springframework.security.version}

spring-security-web

It contains filters and other web security related features.


    org.springframework.security
    spring-security-web
    ${org.springframework.security.version}

spring-security-config

It is used for configuring the authentication providers. Authentication providers can be like JDBC, DAO, LDAP etc. 


    org.springframework.security
    spring-security-config
    ${org.springframework.security.version}
    runtime

Some other important dependencies are spring-security-ldap, spring-security-acl, spring-security-cas and spring-security-openid.