PASETO is the latest trend in security token formats. Its primary goal is to reduce the problems the JSON Web Token (JWT) related specifications introduce. In this post, I’ll give you a brief introduction to PASETO tokens and then jump into an example that creates and parses tokens using in Java using JPaseto.

Curious to know best practices for securing your Spring Boot applications? This webinar provides 10 excellent ways to secure your Spring Boot apps with Spring Security and other techniques.

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!

This screencast show you five tools to help improve and reduce bugs in your Java code!

Writing quality code takes practice. To write better code, you need to know what should improve. Code quality and what makes code easy to read are very subjective; ask five different developers, you will get six different answers. For this post, I’ll avoid most of the subjective and focus on ways to detect real issues and potential bugs.