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UToken Implementation Extending WebCenter Portal REST: Impl in 11g

I recently got an exciting opportunity my way i.e., to get my hands dirty implementing utoken which adds an additional security to your resources. This is a recommended then sending user's password in plain text using Basic authentication. utoken is kind of a defacto which is used by out-of-box Webcenter Portal REST API to serve each request These tokens are highly secured as they're both generated and validated by the server. Webcenter REST API uses  Jersey  to provide the REST interface Jersey 1.x was part of 11G stack and the latest 12.2.1.3 got upgraded to Jersey 2. However 11g was sweet with kind of straight forward implementation as we had Webcenter Portal Framework Extension available for JDeveloper which provided the following libraries. This is very less spoken outside so I would like to share with you: Now create your resource in PortalExtension project: Add the following entries in web.xml: <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-...