Tutorial: Learn how to use JWT and opaque access with Spring Boot.
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The topic of validating an OAuth 2.0 access tokens comes up frequently on this blog. Often we talk about how to validate JSON Web Token (JWT) based access tokens; however, this is NOT part of the OAuth 2.0 specification. JWTs are so commonly used that Spring Security supported them before adding support for remotely validating tokens (which is part of the OAuth 2.0 specification.)
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This screencast walks you through building a secure Spring Boot application in two commands using the Spring Initalizr and the Okta Maven Plugin on the command line!