SpringBoot Annotations
Before proceeding further let us first understand some important annotations of Spring Boot.
@SpringBootApplication: annotation is equivalent to using @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration and @ComponentScan with their default attributes. One thing to note here regarding ComponentScan is, @SpringBootApplication scans only the subpackages. i.e. for example if the main class is in com.javainfinite, then it will scan all classes from com.javainfinite.* packages.
@EnableAutoConfiguration: attempting to guess and configure beans. If we use SpringBootApplication this annotation is auto enabled and has no effect adding it again
@Controller: marks as web application controller
@RestController: works same as @Controller annotation except @ResponseBody is active by default. In case of @Controller we need to declare @ResponseBody.
@ResponseBody: returns value to the response as HTTP Response body
@RequestMapping: to map the URL for the particular method of entire class
@RequestParam: accessing query parameter values from the request
@PathVariable: pattern that is used in the URI for the incoming request
There are various other annotations too, above explained annotations are the ones most commonly used in springboot.