Spring Sessions allows you to persist user sessions into a database. Combined with Spring Security, it is easy to create a setup where each logged in user is represented by a row in a SPRING_SESSION table. Externalising sessions into a database is also a prerequisite for a zero-downtime deployment strategy where users can stay logged in while a new application version is deployed. On paper, the integration of those two Spring components is very easy. Assuming you have a working ...
