In this tutorial, you're going to use Spring Boot and Spring Data to build a fully functioning web service with ridiculously little effort. You're also going to use Okta to secure the web service using professional, standards-compliant OIDC JWT authentication. All of this will be bootstrapped by the Okta CLI.
Read moreIn this post, we will walk through how to build a simple CRUD application using Spring Boot, MySQL, JPA/Hibernate and Okta OpenID Connect (OIDC) Single Sign-On (SSO).
Read moreNote: 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 as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation.
Read moreNote: 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 as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation.
Read moreEvery non-trivial application needs a way to save and update data: a resource server that is accessible via HTTP. Generally, this data must be secured. Java is a great language with decades of history in professional, enterprise development, and is a great choice for any application's server stack. Within the…
Read moreJava EE allows you to build Java REST APIs quickly and easily with JAX-RS and JPA. Java EE is an umbrella standards specification that describes a number of Java technologies, including EJB, JPA, JAX-RS, and many others. It was originally designed to allow portability between Java application servers, and flourished…
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Andrew Hughes 
Joy Foster 
Raphael do Vale 
Matt Raible