Accepting / returning XML/JSON request and response - Spring MVC

Question

I need to write a rest service which accepts XML/JSON as a input (POST method) and XML/JSON as a output (based on the input format). I have tried a below approach to achieve thi

Answer 1

Adding to Manish's answer above, if you don't wanna use xml based configuration use this java based configuration instead-

@Bean
public ViewResolver contentNegotiatingViewResolver() {
    ContentNegotiatingViewResolver resolver =
            new ContentNegotiatingViewResolver();

    List views = new ArrayList<>();
    views.add(new MappingJackson2XmlView());
    views.add(new MappingJackson2JsonView());

    resolver.setDefaultViews(views);
    return resolver;
}