title: How to obtain session in spring without request?
body: <p>Is there a way to get current session in Spring MVC, but not by request. Typically what we do is we get request in Action/Controller class methods. From this request, we get session by request.getSession(). But is there a way to get this session without this request object?</p>
  
  <p>My motive is that in one utility class I need to access a value that is set in session and this utility class method is getting accessed from more than 50 methods of Controller classes. If I have to get session from request then I would need to change all these 50 places. This looks quite tedious. Please suggest an alternative.</p>