Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

1. Let's say that we want our session to be for one minute. To make this happen, we will ad a ServletWebServerFactory bean to our WebConfiguration class with the following content:

@Beanpublic ServletWebServerFactory servletContainer() {      TomcatServletWebServerFactory tomcat =          new TomcatServletWebServerFactory();  tomcat.getSession().setTimeout(Duration.ofMinutes(1));  return tomcat;}

2. Just for the purpose of demonstration, we will get the session from the request to force its creation. To do this, we will add a new request mapping to our BookController class with the following content:

@RequestMapping(value = "/session", method =  RequestMethod.GET) public String getSessionId(HttpServletRequest request) { return request.getSession().getId(); ...