benhunter / spring-security-dependency

Before Spring Security Dependency

1. Created a Spring app with Spring Initializr.
2. Added the Spring Boot Starter Web. Spring Boot Starter Test comes automatically. See build.gradle.
3. Create a @RestController - HomeResource.java
4. Build and run. ./gradlew build bootrun
5. Go to localhost:8080 in a web browser.
6. Notice no authentication is required to view the page.

After Spring Security Dependency

1. In gradle.build add Spring Boot Starter Security.
2. Build and run. ./gradlew build bootrun
3. Go to localhost:8080 in a web browser.
4. See the redirect to a form login page.
5. Notice in the Spring log output shows a DefaultSecurityFilterChain was added. A generated