How to do Rest Authentication with JAX-RS

Question

I am looking for some pointers on how to secure my rest root resource

@Path(\"/employee\")
public class EmployeeResource {

    @GET
    @Produces(\"text/html\"         


        

Answer 1

The way I know is to add to your webapp's web.xml. Minimally, I think you need to add:

    
    
         employee-related-urls
         
         /employee/*
    

    
    
         
         employee
    

    
    
         
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