A sequential and easy-to-follow guide which allows you to understand the concepts related to securing web apps/services quickly and efficiently, since each topic is explained and described with the help of an example and in a step-by-step manner, helping you to easily implement the examples in your own projects. This book is intended for web application developers who use RESTful web services to power their websites. Prior knowledge of RESTful is not mandatory, but would be advisable.
What you will learn
Set up, implement, and personalize your development and test environment
Learn, understand, and assimilate concepts inherent to security management on RESTful applications and the importance of these concepts
Implement and test security on your applications that use RESTful web services with the most useful techniques and interpret the test results
Apply and configure secure protocols on your application
Implement, configure, and integrate other technologies such as OAuth or SSO with RESTful applications
Learn and assimilate security concepts at JEE application and container level
Understand digital signatures and message encryption through descriptive examples