SessionComponent not always available

I had been using the default app controller, and now, following the examples in the Authentication section of the book...

http://book.cakephp.org/view/1250/Authentication

...I added an app_controller.php to my project and put this into it:

<?php
class AppController extends Controller {
var $components = array('Auth');
}

And my flash messages stopped working:

Notice: Undefined property: FooController::$Session [APP/controllers/foo_controller.php, line 43]
Fatal error: Call to a member function setFlash() on a non-object in /path/to/app/controllers/foo_controller.php on line 43

The documentation for $components says:

http://book.cakephp.org/view/961/components-helpers-and-uses

"The Html, Form, and Session Helpers are always available by default, as is the SessionComponent" however this appears to be false. Everything went back to working as soon as I changed my app_controller.php to:

<?php
class AppController extends Controller {
var $components = array('Auth', 'Session');
}

So is the documentation wrong about SessionComponent always being available, or am I doing something wrong?

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