Build authentication into your Java API’s with Json Web Token (Jwt)

Build authentication into your Java API’s with Json Web Token (Jwt)

In this article, I walk you through the development of a very basic Java JAX_RS web-services with Jwt (Json web token) authentication. For web-services, we’re going to use Jersey which is an open source framework for RESTful Web Services in Java. Before jump into coding and start authenticating the user I want to tell you a brief workflow of our…