Annotations

 @Bean - indicates that a method produces a bean to be managed by IOC

container.
 @Service - indicates that an annotated class is a service class.
 @Repository - indicates that an annotated class is a repository, which is an
abstraction of data access and storage.
 @Configuration - indicates that a class is a configuration class that may
contain bean definitions.
 @Controller - marks the class as web controller, capable of handling the
requests.
 @Component
 @ComponentScan – scans a bean to make it visible for the ioc container.
 @RequestMapping - maps HTTP request with a path to a controller
method.
 @Autowired - marks a constructor, field, or setter method to be autowired
by Spring dependency injection.
 @SpringBootApplication - enables Spring Boot autoconfiguration and
component scanning.
 @EnableAutoConfiguration – automatically configures spring boot
application, based on the jar dependency we have added in the pom.xml
file.
 @PathVariable - used to handle template variables in the request URI
mapping, and set them as method parameters.
 @RequestBody – used to deserialize the request body to the object which is
the parameter of the handler method.

JSON is a format that encodes objects in a string. Serialization means to convert

an object into that string, and deserialization is its inverse operation
(convert string -> object).
ORM annotations:-

Each entity must have at least two annotations defined: 

@Entity and @Id.
The @Entity annotation specifies that the class is an entity and is mapped to a
database table.
The @Table annotation specifies the name of the database table to be used for
mapping.
The @Id annotation specifies the primary key of an entity
the @GeneratedValue provides for the specification of generation strategies for
the values of primary keys.