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<title>Authentication</title>
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<partintro>
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- <para>In this part of the reference guide we will examine individual
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+ <para>We've already introduced Spring Security's authentication architecture
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+ in the <link xlink:href="#technical-overview">Technical Overview</link> chapter.
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+ In this part of the reference guide we will examine individual
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authentication mechanisms and their corresponding
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<literal>AuthenticationProvider</literal>s. We'll also look at how to
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configure authentication more generally, including if you have several
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authentication approaches that need to be chained together.</para>
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+ <para>
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+ With some exceptions, we will be discussing the full details of Spring Security
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+ bean configuration rather than the shorthand
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+ <link xlink:href="#namespace-config">namespace syntax</link>. You should review
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+ the introduction to using namespace configuration and the options it provides
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+ to see if they will meet your needs. As you come to use the framework more,
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+ and need to customize the internal behaviour, you will probably want to understand
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+ more about how the individual services are implemented, which classes to look at
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+ extending and so on. This part is more targeted at providing this kind of information.
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+ We'd recommend that you supplement the content by browsing the Javadoc and the source
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+ itself <footnote><para>Links to both Javadoc APIs and browsable source cross-reference
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+ are available from the project web site.</para></footnote>.
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+ </para>
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</partintro>
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<xi:include href="common-auth-services.xml" />
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Luke Taylor