Since Spring 3.0 you also can throw an Exception declared with @ResponseStatus
annotation:
@ResponseStatus(value = HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
public class ResourceNotFoundException extends RuntimeException {
...
}
@Controller
public class SomeController {
@RequestMapping.....
public void handleCall() {
if (isFound()) {
// whatever
}
else {
throw new ResourceNotFoundException();
}
}
}