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Thus a JWS with Unencoded Payload option (JWS header 'b64' property set to false) has been introduced to let users configure JWS Signature providers not to encode the actual data payload. As it happens it appears to be most useful when JWS JSON sequences are produced, see this example.

Note that Both JWS JSON and JWS Compact also supports support 'b64' property but only with the detached payloads. It is easier to appreciate the value of disabling Base64Url encoding with JWS JSON as seen in the example.

In CXF you can apply this option to both JWS Compact (only for detached payloads at the moment) and JWS JSON sequences, here is a JWS JSON code fragment:

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