What are the ways to work with cookies in java?

Question

Java

As part of working with REST, it is required to keep the session and store cookies accordingly.
Question: what is the best way to implement this?
Ideas: use RequestInterceptor to add cookies to requests, and store them in the form of a list directly in memory. Is this a good solution or could it be better?
I found the standard CookieStore type, but I don’t understand how it can be better than the previous method.

Answer 1

It is normal practice to keep the session in memory. For example Map