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RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition

You're reading from   RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition Design scalable and robust RESTful web services with JAX-RS and Jersey extension APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399092
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jobinesh Purushothaman Jobinesh Purushothaman
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing the REST Architectural Style FREE CHAPTER 2. Java APIs for JSON Processing 3. Introducing the JAX-RS API 4. Advanced Features in the JAX-RS API 5. Introducing the Jersey Framework Extensions 6. Securing RESTful Web Services 7. The Description and Discovery of RESTful Web Services 8. RESTful API Design Guidelines A. Useful Features and Techniques Index

Securing RESTful web services with OAuth


OAuth is an open standard for authorization, used by many enterprises and service providers to protect resources. OAuth solves a different security problem than what HTTP basic authentication has been used for. OAuth protocol allows client applications to access protected resources on behalf of the resource owner (typically, the application user).

If we look at the history of this protocol, the OAuth Version 1.0 was published as RFC 5849 in 2010. Later, the next evolution of OAuth, Version 2.0, was published as RFC 6749 in 2012. Note that these two versions are different in their implementations and do not have many things in common. In this section, we will see what the OAuth protocol and its details are. We will also discuss how a RESTful web service client can access OAuth-protected RESTful web APIs.

Understanding the OAuth 1.0 protocol

The OAuth protocol specifies a process for resource owners to authorize third-party applications to access their...

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