Its great to see Wildfly 8.0 making it so much easier to work with BOTH XML and JSON representations from a common set of JAXB classes without any extra plumbing or configuration of different JAXB run time implementation.

All you need to do is

• Just return the JAXB objects from your business methods within the JAXRS resource classes
• Set the HTTP Accept header to application/json

Simple business method returning the JAXB class

The JSON result

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