Spring MVC: How to return image in @ResponseBody?

if you are using Spring version of 3.1 or newer you can specify “produces” in @RequestMapping annotation. Example below works for me out of box. No need of register converter or anything else if you have web mvc enabled (@EnableWebMvc).

@ResponseBody
@RequestMapping(value = "/photo2", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG_VALUE)
public byte[] testphoto() throws IOException {
    InputStream in = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/images/no_image.jpg");
    return IOUtils.toByteArray(in);
}

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