Does it make sense to have an annotated Abstract Controller class - Spring MVC

Does it make sense to have an annotated (@Controller) Abstract class in Spring MVC driven container, basically would like to place most of the reusable methods such as exception handlers in the Abstract class and extend that with the base class, so that don't have to repeat the same boilerplate code. For example.

Abstract Controller Class:

    @Controller
    abstract class AbstractExternalController {

    @ExceptionHandler(NoSuchRequestHandlingMethodException.class)
    @ResponseStatus(value = HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
    public @ResponseBody ResponseModel handleNotFoundException() {
            final ResponseModel response = new ErrorModel();
            response.setStatus("404");
                response.setMessage("Resource Not Found");
                return response;
             } 
...

    }

Base Controller Class

@Controller
class ExternalControllerXXX extends AbstractExternalController  {

...
}