Programming fun at startup: Jesey writing an authentication filter

Programming fun at startup: Jesey writing an authentication filter

2) You can do it using the jersey filter. You have to implement a ResourceFilterFactory and handle the auth in ContainerRequestFilter. The detailed code is below.  I like the approach 1 as it give complete lifecycle control. However if you need more specifc things like accessing QueryParams or PathParams then approach 2 is the way to go

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