how to set header no cache in spring mvc 3 by annotation

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There is no such option. You can use an interceptor:

<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<mvc:interceptors>
    <bean id="webContentInterceptor" 
          class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.WebContentInterceptor">
        <property name="cacheSeconds" value="0"/>
        <property name="useExpiresHeader" value="true"/>
        <property name="useCacheControlHeader" value="true"/>
        <property name="useCacheControlNoStore" value="true"/>
    </bean>
</mvc:interceptors>

(taken from here)

On one hand it is logical not to have such annotation. Annotations on spring-mvc methods are primarily to let the container decide which method to invoke (limiting it by a request header, request url, or method). Controlling the response does not fall into this category.

On the other hand – yes, it will be handy to have these, because when controllers are unit-tested it is not relevant to test http header stuff (or is it?). And there are @ResponseBody and @ResponseStatus, which do specify some response properties.

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