Handle XML Request and Response

Let’s look at howo handle XML requests and responses by using JAXB annotations.

Javax’s XML annotations

We can use Javax’s annotations of JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding) to modify the XML requests and responses. Let’s look at a few handy annotations below:

The XmlRootElement and XmlAccessorType annotations

Along with the @XmlRootElement annotation, we need to use @XmlAccessorType to declare the default serialization technique.

Here, we’ve used the FIELD access type to consider the fields of the class for serialization. We can also change the serialization ...

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