JAX-RS - JSON without root node

Question

I have a restful web service, and the response is:

{
    \"cities\": [{
        \"id\": \"1\",
        \"name\": \"City 01\",
        \"state\": \"A1\"
    }         


        

Answer 1

Answer from Kim Burgaard above works also for Jersey Spring WS. I had the same problem using Glassfish 3.0 and solved it adding the parameter shown below.

Example web.xml

    
        contextConfigLocation
        classpath:applicationContext.xml
    
    
        org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
    
    
        org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener
    
    
        Jersey Spring Web Application
        com.sun.jersey.spi.spring.container.servlet.SpringServlet
        
            com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages
            org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs

        
    
    
        Jersey Spring Web Application
        /services/*
    

Example applicationContext.xml