JWT vs Session vs OAuth2 in Spring Boot: Which One Should You Use?

JWT vs Session vs OAuth2 in Spring Boot: Which One Should You Use? Tags: java springboot security webdev If you've spent any time building APIs with Spring Boot, you've inevitably faced this question: how do I handle authentication? You Google it. You find three different approaches. Every Stack Overflow answer recommends something different. And you end up more confused than when you started. After 8 years building Java backends, I've used all three in production. Here's the ho