OAuth 2.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

The next steps will present you with how you can create a client application that uses the Client Credentials grant type:

1. Create the project using Spring Initializr. Go to https://start.spring.io/ and fill out the form using the following data:
   • Set up the Group as com.packt.example
   • Define the Artifact as client-client-credentials
   • Add Web, Security, and Thymeleaf as dependencies for this project
2. After creating the client-client-credentials project, import it to your IDE.
3. Open the pom.xml file and add the following dependency, as we will use the Spring Security OAuth2 project:

<dependency>  <groupId>org.springframework.security.oauth</groupId>  <artifactId>spring-security-oauth2</artifactId></dependency>

4. Add the following ...