Spring Social

Connect your Spring application with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) API providers such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Quick Start
Fork me on GitHub

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that allows you to connect your applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) API providers such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Features

  • An extensible service provider framework that greatly simplifies the process of connecting local user accounts to hosted provider accounts.
  • A connect controller that handles the authorization flow between your Java/Spring web application, a service provider, and your users.
  • Java bindings to popular service provider APIs such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, TripIt, and GitHub.
  • A sign-in controller that enables users to authenticate with your application by signing in through a service provider.
  • Much more…

Quick Start

Download

The recommended way to get started using spring-social in your project is with a dependency management system – the snippet below can be copied and pasted into your build. Need help? See our getting started guides on building with Maven and Gradle.