Requirements of the SpringBlog Application

When defining the requirements for the SpringBlog application, our main goal was to highlight certain Spring Framework features in the context of a full application. For this reason, we included a few features, such as auditing and obscenity filtering, that you would not expect to see in a traditional blog application but that are useful features nonetheless and provide a way to highlight certain features of the Spring Framework.

This section provides a full rundown of the features included in the SpringBlog application.

Security and Authentication

Like most other blog applications, the SpringBlog application provides security controls that prevent unauthorized users from creating and editing blog entries.