On the Okta blog, we spend much of our time talking about logging in. That is because once you configure your application to log in, the log out just works. But there are a few things you should consider when you’re thinking about your app’s logout configuration. In this post, I’ll walk through examples of the two logout options you have with Spring Security: the “default” session clearing logout, and relying party initiated logout.

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!

My favorite way to test Java code is with Groovy. Specifically, writing tests in Groovy with Hamcrest. In this post, I’ll walk through how to test a simple Spring Boot application with these tools.

Most OAuth 2.0 guides are focused around the context of a user, i.e., login to an application using Google, Github, Okta, etc., then do something on behalf of that user. While useful, these guides ignore server-to-server communication where there is no user and you only have one service connecting to another one.