In this post, we are going to see another important annotation called @RestController. It is generally used while working with Spring restful Web services implementation.
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If we need to directly get resource from controller, we need to return @ResponseBody as per Spring 3 but with Spring 4, we can use @RestController for that.
In spring 4.0, we can use @RestController which is combination of @Controller + @ResponseBody.
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Instead of annotating each method return type as @ResponseBody, we can directly annotate a class with @RestController. You can see Spring rest Json example to get complete working example on @RestController.