OpenID Connect
Understand how OpenID Connect extends OAuth2 to provide standardized user authentication by retrieving ID tokens with user data. Learn to configure and integrate OpenID Connect providers like Auth0 into JakartaEE applications using the Security API, enhancing secure access and user identification.
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Overview
OAuth2 is only designed to handle the authorization aspects of user data that are stored at some location. In the lesson “Callback Handlers,” our application doesn’t know the end user that accesses our application. It just receives an access token that can be used to retrieve some data. We don’t know the name, email address, avatar image, or permissions of that user. However, in the example, we can find out the name of the user, as that is part of ...