Spring Boot Session Management using Redis

Date: 2020-09-09

This tutorial demonstrates Spring Boot session management using Redis. Because HTTP is stateless, Spring's session management mechanism is used to track users. This example uses Spring Session Core and Spring Session Data Redis to store session information in Redis instead of the default in-memory Tomcat storage. The tutorial provides step-by-step instructions, including setting up Redis using Docker, configuring pom.xml and application.properties, creating Java controllers and a Thymeleaf template, and running the application. The application allows users to input data, store it in the session, and invalidate the session.

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