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How to implement REST token-based authentication with JAX-RS and Jersey

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How token-based authentication works In token-based authentication, the client exchanges hard credentials (such as username and password) for a piece of data called token. For each request, instead of sending the hard credentials, the client will send the token to the server to perform authentication and then authorization. In a few words, an authentication scheme … Read more

How to handle CORS using JAX-RS with Jersey

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Note: Make sure to read the UPDATE at the bottom. The original answer includes a “lazy” implementation of the CORS filter With Jersey, to handle CORS, you can just use a ContainerResponseFilter. The ContainerResponseFilter for Jersey 1.x and 2.x are a bit different. Since you haven’t mentioned which version you’re using, I’ll post both. Make … Read more

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