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== Managing Resource Servers

According to the OAuth2 specification, a resource server is a server hosting the protected resources and capable of accepting and responding to protected resource requests.

In {{book.project.name}}, resource servers are provided with a rich platform for enabling fine-grained authorization for their protected resources, where authorization decisions can be made based on different access control mechanisms.

Any client application can be configured to support fine-grained permissions. In doing so, you are conceptually turning the client application into a resource server.