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The Rise of OAuth
Summary
Craig Walls talks about securing the modern web and how OAuth can help with that, showing how to secure and consume resources with OAuth.
Bio
Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 17 years. He is a senior engineer with SpringSource as the Spring Social project lead and is the author of Spring in Action, XDoclet in Action and Modular Java. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring and OSGi on his blog.
About the conference
SpringOne 2GX is a one-of-a-kind conference for application developers, solution architects, web operations and IT teams who develop business applications, create multi-device aware web applications, design cloud architectures, and manage high performance infrastructure. The sessions are specifically tailored for developers using the hugely popular open source Spring technologies, Groovy & Grails, and Tomcat. Whether you're building and running mission-critical business applications or designing the next killer cloud application, SpringOne 2GX will keep you up to date with the latest enterprise technology.
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Scenario: You have a client application for that manages surveys. You want to automatically tweet survey summary results to Tweeter or to post on a results page on Facebook. What is the use case for using OAuth to handle security in this case where you need this to be automated and not require User interactions?