Spring Exception Handling Rules for @ControllerAdvice

TIL about Spring’s @ExceptionHandler selection rules — and it surprised me a bit. Quick summary: Inside the same @ControllerAdvice: root exception match > cause match Across different advice beans: @Order priority beats everything — even root vs cause. So a higher-priority advice matching a cause can override a lower-priority advice matching the actual exception. Lesson learned: Put your primary/global exception handlers in a high-priority @ControllerAdvice. Sharing in case it saves someone else a debugging session 🙂 #SpringBoot #Java

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