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Ankur Mhatre 4dc45d5e00 Add OAuth2 resource server project: JWT validation, JWKS and key rotation
Companion code for the follow-up article. The repository now holds two Maven
projects sharing one docs/ tree:

  jwt-authentication/       the hand-written filter application (unchanged, moved)
  oauth2-resource-server/   a resource server, a Keycloak compose, and a stub
                            issuer whose JWK Set can be mutated on command

The stub exists because Keycloak will not rotate a signing key at a chosen
second, report how many times its JWKS endpoint was fetched, or drop a key from
the published set on request - and the caching and rotation measurements need
all three. The Keycloak run confirms the same code path against a real issuer.

Findings captured under docs/output/, all from real runs:

  * The default validator stack does not check aud. A token minted for another
    service in the same realm is accepted.
  * Spring Security builds its JWKSource with refreshAheadCache(false) and
    rateLimited(false), overriding two of Nimbus's protective defaults, and
    enables Nimbus caching only when NO Spring cache was supplied - so
    supplying one removes the five-minute expiry.
  * A key retired from the JWK Set stops being accepted at t+300s with the
    default cache, and never with a Spring cache that has no TTL.
  * 25 tokens carrying an unknown kid produce 25 JWKS fetches at the issuer,
    through permitAll() endpoints included.
  * A hyphenated client id in an authorities-claim-expression parses as
    subtraction; the SpelEvaluationException is swallowed and logged at TRACE.
  * A clientScopes key in a Keycloak realm import replaces the built-in scopes
    rather than adding to them.

New docs chapters 12-18. README covers both projects. Existing docs and scripts
updated for the new paths; no docs/output/ file from the first article moved, so
links in the published article still resolve.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013f7f2XZXrQ6gW3RtZE187t
2026-08-23 11:00:56 +00:00

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# A real issuer, in one command.
#
# docker compose -f docker/compose.yaml up -d
# ./scripts/run-rs.sh keycloak,roles
# ./scripts/keycloak-demo.sh
#
# Notes that matter for a resource server:
#
# * KC_HOSTNAME fixes the issuer string. Keycloak derives `iss` from the request host
# unless you pin it, so a token fetched via localhost and a token fetched via a
# container name carry DIFFERENT issuers and one of them will fail JwtIssuerValidator.
# Pinning it is the single most common fix for "it works from curl but not from the app".
#
# * start-dev keeps everything in an in-memory H2 database. Every restart is a fresh realm
# and, importantly for this repository, a fresh signing key.
#
# * The realm is imported at boot from realm-demo.json, so the demo users, roles and the
# audience mapper exist without any admin-console clicking.
services:
keycloak:
image: quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:26.7.2
container_name: jwt-demo-keycloak
command: ["start-dev", "--import-realm"]
environment:
KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_USERNAME: admin
KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_PASSWORD: admin
KC_HOSTNAME: http://localhost:8080
KC_HOSTNAME_STRICT: "false"
KC_HTTP_ENABLED: "true"
KC_HEALTH_ENABLED: "true"
ports:
- "8080:8080"
volumes:
- ./realm-demo.json:/opt/keycloak/data/import/realm-demo.json:ro