Is Spring annotation @Controller same as @Service?

Question

Is Spring annotation @Controller same as @Service?

I have idea about @Controller which can be used for URL mappin

Answer 1

You can declare a @service as @Controller.

You can NOT declare an @Controller as @Service

@Service

It is regular. You are just declaring class as a Component.

@Controller

It is a little more special than Component. The dispatcher will search for @RequestMapping here. So a class annotated with @Controller, will be additionally empowered with declaring URLs through which APIs are called