How to Secure a RESTful Web Service Using Jakarta EE

This guide shows you how to secure a rest endpoint using Jakarta Authentication . As we delve into securing RESTful web services, let’s first define a basic scenario that we will be working with throughout this article. We are constructing a service that will accept an HTTP GET request at http://localhost:8080/jakartaee-hello-world/rest/hello . In response to this request, our service will return a JSON payload, as shown in the following example: