Can I turn off the HttpSession in web.xml?

Question

I would like to eliminate the HttpSession completely - can I do this in web.xml? I\'m sure there are container specific ways to do it (which is what crowds the search result

Answer 1

One cannot avoid the session creation. But you can check if you violate your own requirement at the end of a request cycle. So, create a simple servlet filter, which you place as first and after chain.doFilter throw an exception if a session was created:

chain.doFilter(request, response);
if(request.getSession(false) != null)
    throw new RuntimeException("Somewhere request.getSession() was called");