- Update the Spring-Security-code to use the "SecurityFilterChain", as the previous code was deprecated.

- Update dependencies.

build.gradle

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 plugins {
-    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.7.0'
+    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.7.1'
     id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.11.RELEASE'
     id 'java'
 }
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ dependencies {
     implementation("org.springframework.security:spring-security-web")
     implementation("org.springframework.security:spring-security-config")
 
-    //implementation("io.jsonwebtoken:jjwt:0.9.1")  // Use this in case we use auth-tokens later on.
+    //implementation group: 'io.jsonwebtoken', name: 'jjwt-api', version: '0.11.5'    // Use this in case we use auth-tokens later on.
 
     // Enable the validation annotations.
-    //implementation group: 'javax.validation', name: 'validation-api', version: '2.0.1.Final'
+    //implementation group: 'jakarta.validation', name: 'jakarta.validation-api', version: '3.0.2'
 
     implementation "org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.24"
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ dependencies {
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3
     implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-lang3', version: '3.12.0'
 
-    implementation 'io.minio:minio:8.4.1'
+    implementation 'io.minio:minio:8.4.2'
 
     // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.cloudera.impala/jdbc
     implementation("com.cloudera.impala:jdbc:2.5.31") {

src/main/java/eu/openaire/urls_controller/security/SecurityConfiguration.java

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 package eu.openaire.urls_controller.security;
 
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.method.configuration.EnableGlobalMethodSecurity;
 import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders.HttpSecurity;
 import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableWebSecurity;
-import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter;
 import org.springframework.security.config.http.SessionCreationPolicy;
+import org.springframework.security.web.SecurityFilterChain;
 
 
 @Configuration
@@ -17,14 +16,10 @@ import org.springframework.security.config.http.SessionCreationPolicy;
         jsr250Enabled = true,
         prePostEnabled = true
 )
-public class SecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
+public class SecurityConfiguration {
 
-    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SecurityConfiguration.class);
-
-
-    // Defines which resources are public and which are secured.
-    @Override
-    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
+    @Bean
+    public SecurityFilterChain filterChain(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
         http
                 .headers()
                 .frameOptions()
@@ -46,5 +41,7 @@ public class SecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
                 //.requiresChannel()
                 //.anyRequest().requiresSecure()
         ;
+        return http.build();
     }
+
 }