Question

I know using mvc:annotation-driven will give me that for free. But I’d like to have more control of it.

my config is like the following:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver">
        <property name="order" value="1" />
        <property name="mediaTypes">
            <map>
                <entry key="json" value="application/json" />
                <entry key="xml" value="text/xml"/>
            </map>
        </property>
        <property name="defaultViews">
            <list>
                <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView">
                    <property name="prefixJson" value="false" />
                    <property name="objectMapper" ref="jacksonObjectMapper" />
                </bean>
                <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.xml.MarshallingView" >
                    <property name="marshaller">
                            <bean class="org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Jaxb2Marshaller">
                           <property name="contextPath" value="com.appservices.dtos"/>
                        </bean>
                    </property>
                </bean>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

Spring does not like the contextPath property, how to tell it to scan some package to find all jaxb beans? Thanks.

Answer 1

have you tried with classesToBeBound property? In any case your problem has nothing to do with spring mvc or contentnegotiatingViewResolver, is with Jaxb2Marshaller

<bean id="jaxb2Marshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Jaxb2Marshaller">
    <property name="classesToBeBound">
        <list>
            <value>org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Flight</value>
            <value>org.springframework.oxm.jaxb.Flights</value>                
        </list>
    </property>
    <property name="schema" value="classpath:org/springframework/oxm/schema.xsd"/>
</bean>