Question

I am trying to learn Oauth authentication with Spring Security and just found two versions of spring-security-oauth library.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.spring-security-oauth</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security-oauth</artifactId>
    <version>3.17</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.security.oauth</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security-oauth</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0.M6</version>
</dependency>

I was wondering if anyone could please tell me the difference and which the preferred one is?

Answer 1

The web site tells what it’s about.

This project has been adopted into SpringSource as an official
extension for Spring Security. Active feature development has moved to
that location.

You’re welcome to continue to use the Codehaus artifacts, but be aware
that any new features aren’t being developed here. This has
implications for those still using Spring Security 2.x, as the new
development is only being done in support for Spring Security 3.x.