Here over this article, we are discussing different REST specific annotations in Spring.

@Controller

We can annotate classic controllers with the _@Controller_ annotation. This is simply a specialization of the _@Component_ class, which allows us to auto-detect implementation classes through classpath scanning.

We typically use @Controller_ it in combination with an _@RequestMapping_ annotation for request handling methods_.

@RestController

_@RestController_ is a specialized version of the controller. It includes the _@Controller_ and _@ResponseBody_ annotations, and as a result, simplifies the controller implementation.

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