SpringBoot Core Annotations: @ControllerAdvice, @RestControllerAdvice, @Validated
SpringBoot developers often misuse @ControllerAdvice, @RestControllerAdvice, and @Validated, leading to uncaught exceptions, ambiguous responses, and validation errors; this article explains each annotation’s underlying mechanism, proper usage for global exception handling, data binding, request preprocessing, and group‑based validation, and provides production‑ready code examples.
