Hacking Custom Authentication Providers with Grails Spring Security

The Grails Spring Security plugin totally rocks. Even though Peter wrote a fantastic chapter on it for Grails in Action, I’ve always been a bit scared of it (based on some early bad experiences with the raw acegi codebase which *was* pretty insanely complex to get going). Anyways, I’ve had cause to revisit Spring Security for a new client project, and had some tricky corner cases to solve. In particular, the app exposes a REST [...]