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I am studying for the Spring Core certification and I have some doubt about how Spring MVC handle REST web service.

Reading the documentation I found this example:

@RequestMapping(value="/orders", method=RequestMethod.GET) public void listOrders(Model model) { // find all Orders and add them to the model } @RequestMapping(value="/orders", method=RequestMethod.POST) public void createOrder(HttpServletRequest request, Model model) { // process the order data from the request }

Ok, it show 2 Spring MVC method (that I think should be declared into a controller class, is it true).

These methods both handle HTTP request towards the /orders resource (according to the REST style in which a resource is seen as a programming element that manages a kind of data and a state and provide processing on this kind).

In this case if the HTTP request toward the /orders is a GET it will be executed the listOrders() method that return the list of all objects but if the request toward the /orders is a POST it will perform the createOrder() that create a new order

So what exactly means, that using the method paramether of the @RequestMapping annotation I can handle the HttpRequest according to the RESTful style?

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    see also Spring Data REST project Commented Feb 15, 2015 at 19:57

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REST is an architecture style that uses the various HTTP methods to model actions on resources.

Spring's @RequestMapping annotation is just a way to map a handler method to an HTTP request. The method attribute simply restricts which HTTP methods can be handled by the annotated method.

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Ok, this is clear for me. But is it thinked to bundle together a resource with a specific HTTP method (the so called "verbs")?
I don't understand your question.
In a RESTful web api that use HTTP protocol I have to use the HTTP method set (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) on a specific resource. So my question is: it it the method=RequestMethod.XXX the proper way used by Spring MVC to handle the HTTP method (the verbs) to a resource specified by the @RequestMapping annotation?