UseOAuthBearerTokens vs UseOAuthBearerAuthentication

The UseOAuthBearerTokens extension method creates both the token server and the middleware to validate tokens for requests in the same application.

Pseudocode from source using reflector:

UseOAuthAuthorizationServer(); // authorization server middleware
UseOAuthBearerAuthentication(ApplicationOAuthBearerProvider); // application bearer token middleware           
UseOAuthBearerAuthentication(ExternalOAuthBearerProvider); // external bearer token middleware

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