The feign client can support one contract only, and contracts tend to initialize themselves in the constructor. However, contracts are generally not mutually exclusive, and mixing, let’s say, default and spring contracts is totally possible if one transitions from one contract to another. My current workaround uses reflection and simply merges lists and maps of annotation processors of the two, which works because each contract supports its own set of annotations, so only one processor works at a time. It would be great if feign can provide composite contract out of the box that accept a list of contracts as an argument. The rest already works fine thanks to DeclarativeContract