import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController cannot be resolved - spring

Question

I'm using Eclipse Kepler..I tried to use
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController
But this import statement is not getting resolved
I've added all the dependencies required for that..but restcontroller is not getting resolved..
package s;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
#RestController
public class RestController {
#Autowired Bean bean;
#RequestMapping(value="/springAngularJS", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public #ResponseBody Bean getBean() {
Bean bean=new Bean();
bean.setUserName("savitha");
bean.setAge("22");
bean.setCompany("Infosys");
bean.setDesignation("ApplicationDeveloper");
return bean;
}
}
And my pom.xml is
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>AngularRest</groupId>
<artifactId>AngularRest</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0</version>
<name>AngularRest</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>objectdb</id>
<name>ObjectDB Repository</name>
<url>http://m2.objectdb.com</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.7.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
<version>1.6.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.7.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.objectdb</groupId>
<artifactId>objectdb</artifactId>
<version>2.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>aopalliance</groupId>
<artifactId>aopalliance</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
<version>1.6.10</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.5</source>
<target>1.5</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<version>6.1.10</version>
<configuration>
<scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
<stopKey>foo</stopKey>
<stopPort>9999</stopPort>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-jetty</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
<daemon>true</daemon>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>stop-jetty</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>stop</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<finalName>AngularRest</finalName>
</build>
Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

The problem is your class is named "RestController" and that conflicts with the actual RestController class used for the annotation. You just need to rename your class/file to something else like "DemoController" to avoid the class name conflict or specify the full path like #org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController so it knows which one to use

Answer 2

I had the same issue i found the solution here.
Add this dependency to the pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>4.1.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Answer 3

#RestController annotation since spring-web 4.0

Answer 4

Sometimes .jar files does not get downloaded via Maven properly. Please perform maven update on the project.

Answer 5

for a simple boot application,just check these dependencies in your pom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>bootbtb</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>bootbtb</name>
<description>bus project for Spring Boot</description>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.9.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>4.1.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>4.1.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Answer 6

I was having similar problem using springboot, my spring version in Pom was
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1.RELEASE</version>
I changed the version to
<version>1.5.9.RELEASE</version>
clean the project after that and import, that would work.

Answer 7

Why don't you change spring mvc version?
I had experienced the same problem using springboot.
In my case the problem is version.
So I had change version 1.2.3 -> 1.2.2.
Then the problem was solved.

Answer 8

update properties in pom.xml as
<properties>
<spring.version>4.0.0.RELEASE</spring.version>
</properties>