CXF: No message body writer found for class - automatically mapping non-simple resources

Question

I am using the CXF rest client which works well for simple data types (eg: Strings, ints). However, when I attempt to use custom Objects I get this:

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Answer 1

When programmatically creating server, you can add message body writers for json/xml by setting Providers.

JAXRSServerFactoryBean bean = new JAXRSServerFactoryBean();
bean.setAddress("http://localhost:9000/");

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