Before you begin

This guide shows you how to use Okta as the user store for your web application and sign users in.

If you are building a single-page (browser) app, see Sign users in to your single-page application instead. Or, if you are building a server that returns API responses (but not HTML), see Protect your API endpoints.

This guide assumes that you:

• Have an Okta Developer Edition organization. Don't have one? Create one for free.
• Know the basics of building Web applications.
• Have a project or application that you want to add authentication to.
• Are building a web app that's rendered by a server.

If you don't have an existing app, or are new to building apps, start with this documentation:

• ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Core 2.x
• ASP.NET Core 3.x
• Go
• Node Express
• PHP
• Spring Boot

The Spring Boot Getting Started Guide teaches you the basics of building a Spring Boot application.

You can create a new Spring Boot project with Okta by visiting the Spring Initializr and selecting the dependencies Web, Security, and Okta, then clicking Generate Project to download a zip file.

You can also use the command line:

curl https://start.spring.io/starter.tgz  \
  -d groupId=com.example \
  -d artifactId=demo \
  -d dependencies=web,security,okta \
  -d language=java \
  -d type=maven-project \
  -d baseDir=demo \
| tar -xzvf -

Or, if you want to skip this guide and just download a working sample app, download our Spring Boot Samples on GitHub.

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