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

For RESTful application, I simply invalidate it every time the request's lifecycle ends. There may be some web server that always creates new session when new client access whether you call request.getSession() or not.