Setting up Spring Authorization Server
Spring Authorization Server is a project under the umbrella of Spring Framework that provides the components you need to create an Authorization Server. In this recipe, you will deploy a very simple Authorization Server that you will use for most of the recipes in this chapter. In the following recipes, you will continue to customize this server to achieve the goals of each exercise.
The configuration of this server is just for demo purposes. The Authorization Server plays a crucial role in managing and granting access to protected resources. If you plan to use it in production, I recommend following the instructions from the project at https://docs.spring.io/spring-authorization-server/reference/overview.html. In any case, the principles that we will explain in this book have been adjusted to the OAuth2 specification and well-known practices. For this reason, you will be able to apply what you learn here to any other Authorization Server.
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