REST endpoints are used just about everywhere you need to decouple your web service and client. Many developers have used Spring or JAX-RS for this purpose. Some have used one but not the other, in this post I’ll go over the the differences between the two using basically the same code. In future posts I’ll show you how easy it is to secure these REST endpoints using Apache Shiro and Stormpath. If you cannot wait until then, you can check out these examples right now.

I am happy to announce the the 0.8.0-RC1 release of our Stormpath-Shiro integration. This release builds on top of the recent Apache Shiro 1.4.0-RC2 release.

Welcome to the new Apache Shiro Stormpath integration! This new release features a servlet plugin, plus deeper support for Spring and Spring Boot. Until now, we have only had a basic Apache Shiro realm for Stormpath. While sufficient, this basic realm never granted access to the full suite of Stormpath services. Today, that changed!

Last week we released Apache Shiro 1.3, and I shared a tutorial on the new Hazelcast support. Today, I’d like to introduce you to the new EventBus system and show you a couple different ways to use it. Shiro’s EventBus is implemented very similar to Guava’s EventBus, if you are already familiar with that, you already know how to use it.

The Apache Shiro team is proud to announce the 1.3.0 release. This is the first feature release in a few years, and we’re really excited about it.