Spring Boot Microservices requires authentication of users, and one way is through JSON Web Token (JWT). JWT is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact mechanism for securely transmitting information between parties. In this post, I will explain how to implement JWT authentication in Spring Microservices. JWT Token Overview JWT is of relatively […]Continue reading
Spring Boot REST APIs have different types of clients accessing from different locations. At times, these APIs need to perform tasks to generate and share sensitive data. Now all clients should not get access to such data, but only a privileged set of clients should. In such scenarios, you need to secure your REST API. […]Continue reading
This is part 6 of the tutorial series for building a web application using Spring Boot. In this post, we look at adding a DAO Authentication provider for Spring Security. We started off with the first part by creating our Spring project using the Spring Initializr. In part 2, we rendered a web page using […]Continue reading
This is the fifth part of my tutorial series on building a Spring Boot Web Application. We started off in the first part looking at using the Spring Initializr to start our Spring Boot project. In part 2, we configured Spring MVC and ThymeLeaf templates to display a basic web page. This was followed by […]Continue reading
H2 Database Console Frequently when developing Spring based applications, you will use the H2 in memory database during your development process. It’s light, fast, and easy to use. It generally does a great job of emulating other RDBMs which you see more frequently for production use (ie, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres). When developing Spring Applications, its […]Continue reading
