secure HTTP communication for components of commercial product

Question

Let\'s say I want to ship a commercial product that has two components, written in Java, communicating with each other on a local network using a RESTful API. It could be a musi

Answer 1

Look to OAuth 2.0 for securing your services and you should only provide tokens to your clients instead of two way SSL. Facebook,Google etc. uses it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth