https://devops-monk.com/tags/session/Recent content in Session on Devops MonkHugoen-usMon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/spring-security/session-management/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/spring-security/session-management/How Spring Security Uses Sessions For form login and traditional web applications, Spring Security stores the Authentication object in the HTTP session. On every request, SecurityContextPersistenceFilter (Spring Security 5) or SecurityContextHolderFilter (Spring Security 6) loads the SecurityContext from the session and puts it in the SecurityContextHolder. For stateless APIs using JWT or OAuth2 Bearer tokens, no session is created — the token is verified on every request. Session Creation Policy Control when Spring Security creates sessions: