diff --git a/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/app/controllers/HomeController.java b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/app/controllers/HomeController.java
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index 00000000000..aac89ca601f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/app/controllers/HomeController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) from 2022 The Play Framework Contributors <https://github.com/playframework>, 2011-2021 Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>
+ */
+
+package controllers;
+
+import play.mvc.*;
+
+public class HomeController extends Controller {
+
+    public Result index(Http.Request req) {
+        return ok("hello_world_" + req.session().get("foo").orElse("empty")) // This line tests session cookie parsing
+            .addingToSession(req, "one", "two"); // This lines tests session cookie creation
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/build.sbt b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/build.sbt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fafe8c88e56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/build.sbt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// Copyright (C) from 2022 The Play Framework Contributors <https://github.com/playframework>, 2011-2021 Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>
+
+// See:
+// https://github.com/playframework/playframework/pull/12474
+// https://github.com/playframework/playframework/pull/12624
+val jjwtVersion = "0.12.5"
+val jjwts = Seq(
+  "io.jsonwebtoken" % "jjwt-api",
+  "io.jsonwebtoken" % "jjwt-impl"
+).map(_ % jjwtVersion) ++ Seq(
+  ("io.jsonwebtoken" % "jjwt-jackson" % jjwtVersion).excludeAll(ExclusionRule("com.fasterxml.jackson.core"))
+)
+
+lazy val root = (project in file("."))
+  .enablePlugins(PlayJava)
+  .settings(
+    name := "jjwt-compatibility",
+    version := "1.0-SNAPSHOT",
+    scalaVersion  := ScriptedTools.scalaVersionFromJavaProperties(),
+    updateOptions := updateOptions.value.withLatestSnapshots(false),
+    update / evictionWarningOptions ~= (_.withWarnTransitiveEvictions(false).withWarnDirectEvictions(false)),
+    PlayKeys.playInteractionMode := play.sbt.StaticPlayNonBlockingInteractionMode,
+    libraryDependencies += guice,
+    libraryDependencies ++= jjwts,
+    InputKey[Unit]("makeRequestWithSessionCookie") := {
+      val args                         = Def.spaceDelimited("<path> <status> <cookie> <words> ...").parsed
+      val path :: status :: cookie :: assertions = args
+      ScriptedTools.verifyResourceContains(path, status.toInt, assertions, "Cookie" -> s"PLAY_SESSION=$cookie")
+    },
+  )
+
diff --git a/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/conf/application.conf b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/conf/application.conf
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index 00000000000..e4e0c6bb8fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/conf/application.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# This is the main configuration file for the application.
+# https://www.playframework.com/documentation/latest/ConfigFile
+
+play.http.secret.key="<Lt>v_F:bfRC=/YN8riEbEUAM1C:wT^1a92ywJ8>PI6Vb5c8Brq?b@y1HgzU2qgA"
diff --git a/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/conf/logback.xml b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/conf/logback.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ab6c2b1264f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/conf/logback.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+
+<!-- https://www.playframework.com/documentation/latest/SettingsLogger -->
+
+<!DOCTYPE configuration>
+
+<configuration>
+  <import class="ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder"/>
+  <import class="ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender"/>
+  <import class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender"/>
+  <import class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender"/>
+
+  <appender name="FILE" class="FileAppender">
+    <file>${application.home:-.}/logs/application.log</file>
+    <encoder class="PatternLayoutEncoder">
+      <charset>UTF-8</charset>
+      <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %highlight(%-5level) %cyan(%logger{36}) %magenta(%X{pekkoSource}) %msg%n</pattern>
+    </encoder>
+  </appender>
+
+  <appender name="STDOUT" class="ConsoleAppender">
+    <!--
+         On Windows, enabling Jansi is recommended to benefit from color code interpretation on DOS command prompts,
+         which otherwise risk being sent ANSI escape sequences that they cannot interpret.
+         See https://logback.qos.ch/manual/layouts.html#coloring
+    -->
+    <!-- <withJansi>true</withJansi> -->
+    <encoder class="PatternLayoutEncoder">
+      <charset>UTF-8</charset>
+      <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %highlight(%-5level) %cyan(%logger{36}) %magenta(%X{pekkoSource}) %msg%n</pattern>
+    </encoder>
+  </appender>
+
+  <appender name="ASYNCFILE" class="AsyncAppender">
+    <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
+  </appender>
+
+  <appender name="ASYNCSTDOUT" class="AsyncAppender">
+    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
+  </appender>
+
+  <logger name="play" level="INFO"/>
+  <logger name="application" level="DEBUG"/>
+
+  <root level="WARN">
+    <appender-ref ref="ASYNCFILE"/>
+    <appender-ref ref="ASYNCSTDOUT"/>
+  </root>
+
+</configuration>
diff --git a/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/conf/routes b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/conf/routes
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index 00000000000..19e75649957
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/conf/routes
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Copyright (C) from 2022 The Play Framework Contributors <https://github.com/playframework>, 2011-2021 Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>
+
+GET     /                           controllers.HomeController.index(request: Request)
diff --git a/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/project/plugins.sbt b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/project/plugins.sbt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b79417abc48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+// Copyright (C) from 2022 The Play Framework Contributors <https://github.com/playframework>, 2011-2021 Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>
+
+updateOptions                   := updateOptions.value.withLatestSnapshots(false)
+addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-plugin"         % sys.props("project.version"))
+addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-scripted-tools" % sys.props("project.version"))
diff --git a/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/test b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8a15adbd37d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-mode/sbt-plugin/src/sbt-test/play-sbt-plugin/jjwt-compatibility/test
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+> run
+# First send a request with an invalid session cookie value:
+> makeRequestWithSessionCookie / 200 foo hello_world_empty
+# Next send a request with a valid session cookie value but it was encoded with a different secret:
+> makeRequestWithSessionCookie / 200 eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1MiJ9.eyJkYXRhIjp7ImNzcmZUb2tlbiI7IjVhMTIzMDY4YTE3NGVkMWZlMDkzMWVjZThmMmVkZDE5NWJiYjM2MCAtMTcxNTE1NDc0NDc2My0wMmNlMWQ2MDk2ZDgwYmJkYjBiZDhmOTgiLCJmb28iOiJiYXIifSwibmJmIjoxNzE1MTYwNTU3LCJpYXQiOjE3MTUxNjA1NTd9.N0LWvuPzslvbUsY8v19XXwW1KXKsW-pQY_zctWLgSkU hello_world_empty
+# Now send a request with a valid session cookie, encoded with the secret from application.conf, the session contains the key/value foo->bar
+> makeRequestWithSessionCookie / 200 eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJkYXRhIjp7ImZvbyI6ImJhciJ9LCJuYmYiOjE3MTUxNzE3NjcsImlhdCI6MTcxNTE3MTc2N30.cA0x9_rsyctV1qiMvAydsJPMyrLah4qu0TaSmiVN0nQ hello_world_bar
+> playStop