Spring framework 4.3 introduced variants of the ``++@RequestMapping++`` annotation to better represent the semantics of the annotated methods. The use of ``++@GetMapping++``, ``++@PostMapping++``, ``++@PutMapping++``, ``++@PatchMapping++`` and ``++@DeleteMapping++`` should be preferred to the use of the raw ``++@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.XYZ)++``.