Move and Update Rest and Http Message Converter Article:

moved code (mostly commented out)
changed readme file
added spring boot exampel simply adding bean, for xml too

spring-rest/README.md

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ The "REST With Spring" Classes: http://bit.ly/restwithspring
 
 ### Relevant Articles:
 - [Spring @RequestMapping](http://www.baeldung.com/spring-requestmapping)
-- [Http Message Converters with the Spring Framework](http://www.baeldung.com/spring-httpmessageconverter-rest)
 - [Returning Custom Status Codes from Spring Controllers](http://www.baeldung.com/spring-mvc-controller-custom-http-status-code)
 - [A Guide to OkHttp](http://www.baeldung.com/guide-to-okhttp)
 - [Binary Data Formats in a Spring REST API](http://www.baeldung.com/spring-rest-api-with-binary-data-formats)

spring-rest/pom.xml

@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
@@ -86,12 +82,6 @@
             <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.thoughtworks.xstream</groupId>
-            <artifactId>xstream</artifactId>
-            <version>${xstream.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-
         <!-- util -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
@@ -281,7 +271,6 @@
         <protobuf-java-format.version>1.4</protobuf-java-format.version>
         <protobuf-java.version>3.1.0</protobuf-java.version>
         <commons-lang3.version>3.5</commons-lang3.version>
-        <xstream.version>1.4.9</xstream.version>
 
         <!-- util -->
         <guava.version>20.0</guava.version>

spring-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/sampleapp/config/WebConfig.java

@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConverter;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.json.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter;
-import org.springframework.http.converter.xml.MarshallingHttpMessageConverter;
-import org.springframework.oxm.xstream.XStreamMarshaller;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurer;
 
@@ -33,22 +31,12 @@ public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
             .dateFormat(new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm"));
         messageConverters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter(builder.build()));
         // messageConverters.add(new MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter(builder.createXmlMapper(true).build()));
-    
-        // messageConverters.add(createXmlHttpMessageConverter());
+
         // messageConverters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter());
     
         // messageConverters.add(new ProtobufHttpMessageConverter());
     
     }
     
-    private HttpMessageConverter<Object> createXmlHttpMessageConverter() {
-        final MarshallingHttpMessageConverter xmlConverter = new MarshallingHttpMessageConverter();
-    
-        final XStreamMarshaller xstreamMarshaller = new XStreamMarshaller();
-        xmlConverter.setMarshaller(xstreamMarshaller);
-        xmlConverter.setUnmarshaller(xstreamMarshaller);
-    
-        return xmlConverter;
-    }
     */
 }

spring-rest/src/main/java/com/baeldung/sampleapp/web/dto/Foo.java

@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 package com.baeldung.sampleapp.web.dto;
 
-import com.thoughtworks.xstream.annotations.XStreamAlias;
-
-@XStreamAlias("Foo")
 public class Foo {
     private long id;
     private String name;

spring-rest/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/api-servlet.xml

@@ -10,21 +10,11 @@
 
     <mvc:annotation-driven content-negotiation-manager="contentNegotiationManager" >
         <mvc:message-converters register-defaults="true">
-           <!--  
-           <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter"/>
-             
-           <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.MarshallingHttpMessageConverter">
-		        <property name="marshaller" ref="xstreamMarshaller" />
-		        <property name="unmarshaller" ref="xstreamMarshaller" />
-		    </bean> 
-            -->     
            <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter"/>
 <!-- <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.protobuf.ProtobufHttpMessageConverter"/>         -->      
   </mvc:message-converters>
     </mvc:annotation-driven>
     
-    <bean id="xstreamMarshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.xstream.XStreamMarshaller" />
-    <!--  -->
 
     <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" />
     <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.XmlViewResolver">