spring mvc not returning json content - error 406

Question

I am using Spring MVC with JSON as specified in Ajax Simplification Spring 3.0 article.

After so many attempts and variations of my code depending on advice found on

Answer 1

I had this problem too, you have to add <mvc:annotation-driven /> in your configuration xml

and

<!-- Jackson -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>${jackson.databind-version}</version>
        </dependency>

in your pom.xml

Answer 2

Using jQuery , you can set contentType to desired one (application/json; charset=UTF-8' here) and set same header at server side.

REMEMBER TO CLEAR CACHE WHILE TESTING.