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JHipster UAA server

JHipster user accounting and authorizing (UAA) services are merely an OAuth2 server that can be used for centralized identity management. In order to access the protected resource and also to avoid unwanted access to the APIs, there has to be an authorization server that authorizes the request and provides access to the resource. 

OAuth2 is an authorization framework that provides access to the request based on tokens. Clients request access to a service; if the user is authorized, the application receives an authorization grant. After receiving the grant, the client requests a token from the authorization server. Once the token is received, the client will then request the resource server gets the necessary information. ...