<chapter id="admin-rest-api">
<title>Admin REST API</title>
<para>
The Keycloak Admin Console is implemented entirely with a fully functional REST admin API. You can invoke this
REST API from your Java applications by obtaining an access token. You must have the appropriate
permissions set up as describe in <xref linkend="admin-permissions" /> and <xref linkend="per-realm-admin-permissions" />
</para>
<para>
The documentation for this REST API is auto-generated and is contained in the distribution of keycloak under
the docs/rest-api/overview-index.html directory, or directly from the docs page at the keycloak website.
</para>
<para>
There are a number of examples that come with the keycloak distribution that show you how to invoke on this REST API.
<literal>examples/preconfigured-demo/admin-access-app</literal> shows you how to access this api from java.
<literal>examples/cors/angular-product-app</literal> shows you how to invoke on it from Javascript.
</para>
</chapter>