Spring MVC 3: Returning XML through @ResponseBody

Question

Pardon me for posting this noob question, but I have been debugging this problem for quite awhile now. I\'m having a little problem trying to get the response to return the

Answer 1

Adding produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE to the RequestMapping and @XmlRootElement to the top of your model object should works

@RequestMapping(value = "/mylink", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE)
public SomeObject doIt(){
    return new SomeObject();
}

@XmlRootElement
public class SomeObject {

}