Spring Security Oauth2 with JWT
Learning OAuth2 security protocol has always been one of my prime objectives. After integrating JWT token with Spring Security, I thought of giving a try with learning OAuth2 with Spring Security, as Spring Security provides implementation for OAuth2. To know the basics of OAuth2 I followed this. This article along with Aaron Parecki's blog really helped me in getting the concept behind this security protocol. Let's revise the components involved here: •Resource Owner •Client •Resource Server •Authorization Server and the grant types are: •Authorization Code •Implicit •Resource Owner Password Credentials •Client Credentials We have implemented both the Resource and Authorization server at the same endpoint for the sake of simplicity, however we can implement them separately too. And out of the four grant types I have been successful in experimenting with the last two only. I will try to share those experience here. I have selected JWT as