Its great to see Wildfly 8.0 making it so much easier to work with BOTH XML and JSON representations from a common set of JAXB classes without any extra plumbing or configuration of different JAXB run time implementation
All you need to do is
- Just return the JAXB objects from your business methods within the JAXRS resource classes
- Set the HTTP Accept header to application/json
Simple business method returning the JAXB class
The JSON result
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