# OAuth Frends offers seamless integration with [OAuth](https://oauth.net), enabling you to effortlessly connect and automate data flows involving OAuth authentication and authorization. Frends provides tasks for performing all core OAuth operations. By leveraging Frends' task-based approach, you can configure and customize OAuth integrations according to your specific requirements. Frends offers a wide range of tasks that facilitate integrations to a variety of systems and protocols. ## Important note ***Handling JWT tokens directly implies user authentication and authorizations. Those are complex topics and should be taken seriously. In most cases it is advisable to consider ready-made solutions for JWT token issuing and validation.*** Frends has a built-in features for token validation and REST API call authentication and authorization. Those should be used instead of manual token validation inside of the process. ***Read more about Frends built-in features*** [***here***](https://docs.frends.com/en/articles/2206533-oauth-settings)***.*** ## Use cases Below you will find typical use cases for OAuth integrations and how they are implemented in Frends. ### Create a JWT token By using the HTTP trigger and the [`CreateJWTToken`](https://docs.frends.com/tasks/tasks/oauth/createjwttoken) task, we can create an integration that creates a JWT token in reply to token request over HTTP.

### Parse JWT token By using the HTTP trigger and the [`ParseToken`](https://docs.frends.com/tasks/tasks/oauth/parsetoken) task, we can create an integration that parses an incoming JWT token.