keycloak-scim/topics/resource-server/overview.adoc

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== Managing Resource Servers
According to the OAuth2 specification, a Resource Server is the server hosting the protected resources and capable of accepting and responding to protected resource requests.
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In {{book.project.name}}, resource servers are provided with a rich platform for enabling fine-grained authorization to their protected resources, where authorization decisions can be made
based on different access control mechanisms.
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Any client application can be configured to support fine-grained permissions. When you do that, you are conceptually turning the client application into a resource server.