Content Negotiation Strategy

spring-mvc-xml/pom.xml

@@ -98,6 +98,18 @@
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
+        <!-- Json conversion -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+			<version>2.1.2</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+			<version>2.1.2</version>
+		</dependency>
+		
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/form/Employee.java

@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ package com.baeldung.spring.form;
 
 import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
 import javax.validation.constraints.Size;
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
 
+@XmlRootElement
 public class Employee {
 
 	private long id;

spring-mvc-xml/src/main/resources/contentManagementWebMvcConfig.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.2.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.2.xsd">
+
+	<mvc:annotation-driven content-negotiation-manager="contentNegotiationManager" />
+	<context:component-scan base-package="org.baeldung.spring.controller" />
+	<bean id="viewResolver"
+		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
+		<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/" />
+		<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
+	</bean>
+
+	<mvc:view-controller path="/sample.html" view-name="sample" />
+
+	<!-- Content strategy using path extension -->
+	<bean id="contentNegotiationManager"
+		class="org.springframework.web.accept.ContentNegotiationManagerFactoryBean">
+		<property name="favorPathExtension" value="true" />
+		<property name="favorParameter" value="false"/>
+		<property name="parameterName" value="mediaType"/>
+		<property name="ignoreAcceptHeader" value="true" />
+		<property name="defaultContentType" value="text/html" />
+		<property name="useJaf" value="false" />
+
+		<property name="mediaTypes">
+			<map>
+				<entry key="html" value="text/html" />
+				<entry key="json" value="application/json" />
+				<entry key="xml" value="application/xml" />
+			</map>
+		</property>
+	 </bean>
+
+
+</beans>