Security is generally a topic that is left out when talking about software architecture, but that doesn’t mean that it is not essential. To talk more about it, we created this series on Java API security with Jakarta EE. In this third part, we will talk about the OAuth2 authentication process, moving it quickly to the cloud, and how to implement it with two MongoDB and Redis databases.
OAuth 2.0 is a protocol that allows permission to access authorization resources between systems or sites with the benefits of a better encapsulation of critical information such as username and password. An overview of OAuth 2.0: