Is it necessary to keep Spring MVC in the classpath for developing RES

1.	Is it necessary to keep Spring MVC in the classpath for developing RESTful web services?
Answer» YES. Spring MVC needs to be on the classpath of the application while developing RESTful web services using Spring. This is because, the Spring MVC provides the necessary annotations like @RestController, @RequestBody, @PATHVARIABLE, etc. HENCE the spring-mvc.jar needs to be on the classpath or the CORRESPONDING Maven entry in the pom.xml.

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