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Asked: 2026-05-23T00:13:46+00:00

I am writing a WebService using Java. Now I have a @WebMethod that is

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I am writing a WebService using Java. Now I have a @WebMethod that is supposed to return some data, and I am not sure what format to use. I have seen that in other languages, there are certain restrictions on @WebMethod return types – is this the same for Java?

When I tried to return a DOM Document containing XML, I got an error saying “Unable to create JAXBContext”, so I changed it to just returning a String array. However, getting content from that array is rather tedious. Does anyone have a better solution?

Thanks,

VeganSmarties

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  1. Editorial Team

    When I was implementing JAX-WS web services, all my return types were annotated with JAXB annotations (@XmlElement, …), and they also were Serializable. EDIT: which means just any type will not work, and you will have to create wrappers around structures you want to return.

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