Developing REST services in Spring

REST support in Spring

Spring framework is a very good choice for creating REST applications. Spring provides specialized annotations that make RESTful application development easy. Some examples include @RestController, @ResponseBody and @ResponseStatus etc.

Spring also automatically handles Jackson integration which makes conversion of data from JSON to POJO and vice versa a breeze. Any JSON data received by the controller is automatically converted to a POJO and any POJO returned by the controller is converted to JSON. ...