Support both XML and JSON in a Spring API (RWS - Module 2 - Lesson 5)

Learn how to implement Content Negotiation in the API with Spring and how to support both JSON and XML.

This lesson is part of "REST With Spring" - Module 2 (REST and HTTP Semantics) - Lesson 5:

## Lesson Notes

# The Maven Dependencies
- jackson-dataformat-xml
- woodstox-core-asl

# Advantages of using Jackson for XML
Using the new Jackson Spring support for XML has quite a few advantages over using another XML library (such as XStream):
- we're already using Jackson for JSON
- we can re-use the exact same configuration that we're already using for JSON
- no need to add extra annotations to the DTOs
- JSON Views support

# Why change the default STAX implementation
Woodstox has a few advantages over the default STAX impl in the JDK:
- it's faster
- has extra features
- it's more mature and well maintained

To learn more about REST and how to properly implement these HTTP semantics, check out the full course:

Enjoy.

[javafordeveloper]

great tutorial please add spring jpa transaction video!

[ruixue]

Great and useful tutorial for Spring noobs (Y)

[ooostephen]

mm...the text is blurry which makes it nest to impossible to read.