diff --git a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/.gitignore b/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 83c05e60c8..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-*.class
-
-#folders#
-/target
-/neoDb*
-/data
-/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
-*/META-INF/*
-
-# Packaged files #
-*.jar
-*.war
-*.ear
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/pom.xml b/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3fce332645..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-	<groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
-	<artifactId>custom-status-codes</artifactId>
-	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-	<packaging>jar</packaging>
-
-	<name>spring-mvc-custom-status-codes</name>
-	<description>Returning Custom Status Codes from Spring MVC Controllers</description>
-
-	<parent>
-		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
-		<version>1.3.2.RELEASE</version>
-		<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
-	</parent>
-
-	<properties>
-		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
-	</properties>
-
-	<dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
-            <version>1.3.2.RELEASE</version>
-        </dependency>
-	</dependencies>
-	
-	<build>
-		<plugins>
-			<plugin>
-				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-			</plugin>
-		</plugins>
-	</build>
-	
-
-</project>
diff --git a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/CustomStatusCodesApplication.java b/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/CustomStatusCodesApplication.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 2baf4b122f..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/CustomStatusCodesApplication.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-package com.baeldung;
-
-import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
-import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
-
-@SpringBootApplication
-public class CustomStatusCodesApplication {
-	public static void main(String[] args) {
-		SpringApplication.run(CustomStatusCodesApplication.class, args);
-	}
-}
diff --git a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/resources/application.properties b/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/resources/application.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ExampleController.java b/spring-rest/src/main/java/org/baeldung/web/controller/status/ExampleController.java
similarity index 94%
rename from spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ExampleController.java
rename to spring-rest/src/main/java/org/baeldung/web/controller/status/ExampleController.java
index 2d8f699776..ceda138768 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ExampleController.java
+++ b/spring-rest/src/main/java/org/baeldung/web/controller/status/ExampleController.java
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package com.baeldung;
+package org.baeldung.web.controller.status;
 
 import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
 import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
diff --git a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ForbiddenException.java b/spring-rest/src/main/java/org/baeldung/web/controller/status/ForbiddenException.java
similarity index 85%
rename from spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ForbiddenException.java
rename to spring-rest/src/main/java/org/baeldung/web/controller/status/ForbiddenException.java
index 858d428681..1d4aff2ebf 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ForbiddenException.java
+++ b/spring-rest/src/main/java/org/baeldung/web/controller/status/ForbiddenException.java
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package com.baeldung;
+package org.baeldung.web.controller.status;
 
 import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseStatus;