• @Controller is used to mark classes as Spring MVC Controller.
  • @RestController is a convenience annotation that does nothing more than adding the @Controller and @ResponseBody annotations (see: Javadoc)

So the following two controller definitions should do the same

@Controller
@ResponseBody
public class MyController { }

@RestController
public class MyRestController { }

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