--- title: Spring Boot REST API Best Practices - Part 4 | daily.dev description: Covers multiple approaches to exception handling in Spring Boot REST APIs. Starts with simple @ResponseStatus annotation, then progresses to controller-level... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-rest-api-best-practices---part-4-p15mpar34 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Spring Boot REST API Best Practices - Part 4 | daily.dev og:description: Covers multiple approaches to exception handling in Spring Boot REST APIs. Starts with simple @ResponseStatus annotation, then progresses to controller-level... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-rest-api-best-practices---part-4-p15mpar34 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/P15mpar34.png og:image:alt: Spring Boot REST API Best Practices - Part 4 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Spring Boot REST API Best Practices - Part 4 **[Test](https://daily.dev/sources/sivalabs-test-123)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Covers multiple approaches to exception handling in Spring Boot REST APIs. Starts with simple @ResponseStatus annotation, then progresses to controller-level @ExceptionHandler, global exception handling with @RestControllerAdvice, and Spring Framework 6's ProblemDetails (RFC 7807) support. Also covers third-party libraries including error-handling-spring-boot-starter and Zalando's problem-spring-web for structured error responses without boilerplate code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#rest-api](https://daily.dev/tags/rest-api), [#spring-boot](https://daily.dev/tags/spring-boot) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-rest-api-best-practices---part-4-p15mpar34) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Spring Boot REST API Best Practices - Part 4","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-rest-api-best-practices---part-4-p15mpar34","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-rest-api-best-practices---part-4-p15mpar34"},"datePublished":"2026-03-15T21:01:19.596Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T21:03:14.154Z","description":"Covers multiple approaches to exception handling in Spring Boot REST APIs. Starts with simple @ResponseStatus annotation, then progresses to controller-level...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6a620212c3bd516afdbcdeae0e449fb4?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6a620212c3bd516afdbcdeae0e449fb4?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Test","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Test","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--LrHsyt2T--/f_auto/v1692632054/squad_placeholder_sfwkmj","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/sivalabs-test-123"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-rest-api-best-practices---part-4-p15mpar34","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"java,rest-api,spring-boot","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Test","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/sivalabs-test-123"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Spring Boot REST API Best Practices - Part 4"}]} ```