title: Getting started with sessions
body: <p>I am using Spring-MVC to build a website prototype. We have a MySQL database that we address using Hibernate.</p>
  
  <p>Now, I want to add basic user session handling (user can login, do stuff on the site and logout). I thought it should be easy to do, but after a bit of research I feel a bit lost.</p>
  
  <p>I have seen the spring-session project. It seems it depends on a redis server for storing session data. Is there a way I could use my existing Mysql/Hibernate setup for storing the session data? </p>
  
  <p>Also, what is the most easiest way to do sesions in spring-mvc ?</p>