= Spring Security Kerberos With the Spring Security Kerberos Extension, your users are authenticated against your web application just by opening the URL. There is no need to enter a username/password and no need to install additional software. == Downloading Artifacts See https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/Downloading-Spring-artifacts[downloading Spring artifacts] for Maven repository information. == Documentation Be sure to read the http://docs.spring.io/spring-security-kerberos/docs/1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/reference/htmlsingle/[Spring Security Kerberos Reference]. Extensive JavaDoc for the Spring Security Kerberos code is also available in the http://docs.spring.io/spring-security-kerberos/docs/1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/api/[Spring Security Kerberos API Documentation]. == Samples Samples can be found under `spring-security-kerberos-samples`. Check the reference documentation more about what those do. == Building from Source Spring Security Kerberos uses a http://gradle.org[Gradle]-based build system. In the instructions below, http://vimeo.com/34436402[`./gradlew`] is invoked from the root of the source tree and serves as a cross-platform, self-contained bootstrap mechanism for the build. === Prerequisites http://help.github.com/set-up-git-redirect[Git] and the http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads[JDK7 build]. Be sure that your `JAVA_HOME` environment variable points to the `jdk1.7.0` folder extracted from the JDK download. === Check out sources [indent=0] ---- git clone git@github.com:spring-projects/spring-security-kerberos.git ---- === Install all spring-\* jars into your local Maven cache [indent=0] ---- ./gradlew install ---- === Compile and test; build all jars, distribution zips, and docs [indent=0] ---- ./gradlew build ---- Discover more commands with `./gradlew tasks`. See also the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/Gradle-build-and-release-FAQ[Gradle build and release FAQ]. == Getting Support Check out the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-security[Spring Security tags on Stack Overflow]. http://spring.io/services[Commercial support] is available too. == Contributing http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests[Pull requests] are welcome; see the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security-kerberos/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md[contributor guidelines] for details. == License Spring Security Kerberos is Open Source software released under the http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html[Apache 2.0 license].