January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
10h 34m
English
Session-based authentication is the traditional web form-based authentication mechanism where the server creates and maintains a session for the validated user credentials. This is stateful and normally is not very scalable unless you use a distributed HTTP session, which is possible using a distributed cache such as Hazelcast or using the session replication features of a dedicated web server or load balancer. JHipster adds a lot of features on top of the standard mechanism, such as secured tokens that are stored in the database, sessions can be invalidated, remember me mechanisms, and so on.
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