Difference between @Controller and @RestController in Spring MVC?

@Controller is used to declare common web controllers which can return HTTP response but @RestController is used to create controllers for REST APIs which can return JSON.

Hello friends, if you are preparing for a Java developer interview with Spring experience then you may have come across the “difference between @Controller and @RestController annotation” in Spring Boot and Spring Framework in general. It’s one of the popular spring questions and I have seen it many times.

In Spring MVC, both @Controller and @RestContro…