Securing APIs with Spring Security & JWT
A JWT moves the session into the token itself — which buys you scale and hands you a new set of ways to get it wrong.
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A JWT moves the session into the token itself — which buys you scale and hands you a new set of ways to get it wrong.

Once the system knows who you are, RBAC decides what that gets you — and roles are just strings with a convention.

Under the hood it's five small collaborators, each doing one job — and none of them quite where beginners expect.
Add one dependency and everything's locked. The real setup is deciding what to unlock, and why.