Best way to do Spring MVC without JSP? [closed]

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I wish to use Spring MVC to provide a REST web service. However, running through some books and tutorials, it looks like ModelAndView always returns a parsed JSP file. I guess I could make the JSP build my XML document, but is this the best way to go about things? I thought that perhaps a more structured XML building approach might be appropriate.

What are my options? Also, does anyone have any relevant tutorials?

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This would probably help somewhat. It seems you are looking for a Marshalling View.

Alternatively, a JAX-RS implementation like Jersey or RESTeasy might suit you as well.

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The View part of ModelAndView does not have to represent a JSP.

See chapter 17 of the reference manual, for example in chapter 17.5 they describe how to set up a XSLT view (not what you need, but shows how different views are supported).

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.0.M3/spring-framework-reference/html/ch17s05.html

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Have you considered integrating Spring with RESTlet library? This page might be a good starting point...

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There are a number of options for marshaling java beans into either XML or JSON. I use the spring-json package for rendering my model into JSON for my web service, and there are several choices if you want to render XML instead.

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You could check out Freemarker. Basically, XML is just text, and by using a templating system you could easily create your XML document that you want to return.

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You can have a look on http://www.jprovocateur.org . You can have a look on the online example and on the documentation on how the results are transformed in JSON/XML

Regards, Michael

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Using Angularjs is an awesome idea. It does require you to do spring restfull services. Here is an article about it: https://www.webcodegeeks.com/javascript/angular-js/migrating-spring-web-mvc-jsp-angularjs/