Set tracking mode to cookie to remove appended session id, without using web.xml

Question

I am setting up a completely java based spring app with no xml config :

public class WebApp extends AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer {
           


        

Answer 1

In a Spring Boot app, you can configure the mode using the application property server.session.tracking-modes.

In your application.properties add:

server.session.tracking-modes=cookie

Or if you use application.yml:

server:
  session:
    tracking-modes: 'cookie'

The Spring Boot autoconfiguration internally uses the same call to servletContext.setSessionTrackingModes which Bassem recommended in his answer.