In this chapter, we will acquire a simple understanding of Spring Security and we will also talk about JSON Web Token (JWT) and how to use JWTs in our web service calls. This will also include JWT creation.
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
- Spring Security
- JSON Web Token (JWT)
- How to generate JWTs in web services
- How to access and retrieve information from JWTs in a web service
- How to restrict web service calls by adding JWT security