Articles tagged jax-rs
Build a Secure Java Application with Apache Shiro and OAuth 2.0
Apache Shiro is a Java security framework that can perform authentication, authorization, session management, along with a host of other features for building secure applications. In this tutorial, you will build a simple Java REST application using JAX-RS. JAX-RS, like many Java APIs, is a set of interfaces, and you will need to pick an implementation. For this post, I’ll use Jersey (the reference implementation of JAX-RS), but you can use Apache CXF, RESTeasy, or...
Build a Java REST API with Java EE and OIDC
Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work exactly as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation. Java EE allows you to build Java REST APIs quickly and easily with JAX-RS and JPA. Java EE is an umbrella standards specification that...