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Spring System Design in Practice
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Spring System Design in Practice

by Rodrigo Santiago
May 2025
Beginner to intermediate
456 pages
12h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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8

Securing Services with Spring Security and OAuth 2.0

Welcome to Chapter 8! In this chapter, we will discuss important aspects of user authentication and authorization. There is a world of things we could do in Spring to secure our services, but we will take just a key approach here that is widely used today: the combination of OAuth 2.0 and JWT tokens.

Here are the topics we’ll cover:

  • Understanding the security areas in your application
  • What is OAuth 2.0 and why use it?
  • Understanding how JWT tokens work
  • Different architectures for validating tokens
  • Implementing HomeIt security

We will start by taking a strategic view of the possible vulnerabilities a typical microservice architecture brings. Then, we will proceed by discussing OAuth 2.0 ...

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