Question

Please let me know if it is possible to send an XML as a string over a http connection and get back the response in a XML (as a String) without using any parsing mechanism?

Is it feasible in Apache CXF? or use of Streams/parsers is mandatory? Is there a configuration in Apache CXF which does this for me if I provide the content-type as text/xml?

I want to do this without using SOAP.

Answer 1

I used the WebClient API support in CXF.

Snippet below:

    WebClient client =WebClient.create(url);
    client.type("text/xml");
  client.accept("text/xml"); 
  javax.ws.rs.core.Response resp=client.post(request);
  return resp;