How can I have list of all users logged in (via spring security) my web application

For accessing the list of all logged in users you need to inject SessionRegistry instance to your bean.

@Autowired
@Qualifier("sessionRegistry")
private SessionRegistry sessionRegistry;

And then using injcted SessionRegistry you can access the list of all principals:

List<Object> principals = sessionRegistry.getAllPrincipals();

List<String> usersNamesList = new ArrayList<String>();

for (Object principal: principals) {
    if (principal instanceof User) {
        usersNamesList.add(((User) principal).getUsername());
    }
}

But before injecting session registry you need to define session management part in your spring-security.xml (look at Session Management section in Spring Security reference documentation) and in concurrency-control section you should set alias for session registry object (session-registry-alias) by which you will inject it.

    <security:http access-denied-page="/error403.jsp" use-expressions="true" auto-config="false">
        <security:session-management session-fixation-protection="migrateSession" session-authentication-error-url="/login.jsp?authFailed=true"> 
            <security:concurrency-control max-sessions="1" error-if-maximum-exceeded="true" expired-url="/login.html" session-registry-alias="sessionRegistry"/>
        </security:session-management>

    ...
    </security:http>

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