OAuth and RESTEasy Skeleton Key

In this section, we will review some concepts related to OAuth as an authentication framework, RESTEasy Skeleton Key, and how they work together. You will check out some features of these technologies and get your hands dirty with some code as a practical example.

What is RESTEasy Skeleton Key?

RESTEasy Skeleton Key provides a unified way for browser and JAX-RS clients to be secured. This allows executing and forwarding requests in a network of applications and services in a secure and scalable way, without interacting with a central authentication server every time a request appears.

OAuth 2.0 authentication framework

This enables third-party applications or services access to an HTTP resource on behalf of the resource ...

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