The objective of this blog post is to share with you an extract of the “simple” example project on GitHub I created to get started with: How to access a Java Microservice using the Open Source Identity and Access Management with Keycloak and JavaWebToken (JWT).

In that project I want to …

• … secure the Microservice with a login

• … secure a specific REST Endpoint invocation of the Microservice with a role

• … test the access to the Microservice with a JUnit test.

The Microservice runs on OpenLiberty and uses MicroProfile. The example Microservice is called Authors and is from the open sourced Cloud Native Starter project. So, you can compare the implementation of the Authors Microservice in this project with the implementation in the Cloud Native Starter project.

Here is a 7 min YouTube video about the setup of the example:

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