Securing REST API using custom tokens (stateless, no UI, no cookies, no basic authentication, no OAuth, no login page)

Question

There are lots of guidelines, sample codes that show how to secure REST API with Spring Security, but most of them assume a web client and talk about login page, redirection

Answer 1

Another Example Project which uses JWT - Jhipster

Try Generating a Microservice application using JHipster. It generates a template with out of the box integration between Spring Security and JWT.

https://jhipster.github.io/security/