Spring Boot: Cannot access REST Controller on localhost (404)

Adding to MattR's answer:

As stated in here, @SpringBootApplication automatically inserts the needed annotations: @Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration, and also @ComponentScan; however, the @ComponentScan will only look for the components in the same package as the App, in this case your com.nice.application, whereas your controller resides in com.nice.controller. That's why you get 404 because the App didn't find the controller in the application package.

Try adding the following to your InventoryApp class

@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan(basePackageClasses = ItemInventoryController.class)
public class InventoryApp {
...

spring-boot will scan for components in packages below com.nice.application, so if your controller is in com.nice.controller you need to scan for it explicitly.