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How to secure a REST web service in Java EE 6

Asked 2012-01-21T19:16:02.920
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I have made a web application using Java EE 6 (using reference implementations) and I want to expose it as a REST web service.

The background is that I want to be able to retrieve data from the web application to a iOS app I made. The question is how would I secure the application? I only want my application to use the web service. Is that possible and how would I do this? I only need to know what I should search for and read and not the actual code.

java web-services jakarta-ee rest
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Depends on how secure you want to make it.

  • If you don't really care, just embed a secret word in your application and include in all the requests.
  • If you care a little more do the above and only expose the service via https.
  • If you want it to be secure, issue a client certificate to your app and require a valid client certificate to be present when the service is accessed.
answered 2012-01-21T19:20:51.690

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