JSON using a POJO service

[Anas Mughal]

I am unable to respond with pure JSON using a POJO service. Here is my POJO:

public class AxisTest {
    public String getVersion() throws Exception {
                return "{ "customer" : { "name" : { "$" : "Jane Doe" } } }";
    }
}


The response I get in the browser includes the wrapper:

<ns:getVersionResponse xmlns:ns="http://axisversion.sample";>
  <ns:return>{ "customer" : { "name" : "Jane Doe", "company" : "Acme
Enterprises"}</ns:return>
</ns:getVersionResponse>

Instead, I would like get back only:

{ "customer" : { "name" : "Jane Doe", "company" : "Acme Enterprises"}



In the browser, I see the content-type showing up as : "application/xml".
I might be able to resolve this problem by setting the content type to
"application/json". How do I set the content type on a POJO service?

Do I need return XML and Axis2 will automatically convert it to JSON (based
on the message formatter setting of JSONMessageFormatter)?


Here is my services.xml:

<service name="AxisTest3" scope="application">

    <description>This service is to JSON in Axis.</description>

    <parameter name="ServiceClass">sample.axisversion.AxisTest</parameter>

    <messageReceivers>
        <messageReceiver mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-only";
                         class="
org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCInOnlyMessageReceiver"/>
        <messageReceiver mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-out";
                         class="
org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver"/>
    </messageReceivers>

         <messageFormatters>
        <messageFormatter contentType="application/json" class="
org.apache.axis2.json.JSONMessageFormatter"/>
        </messageFormatters>

        <messageBuilders>
            <messageBuilder contentType="application/json" class="
org.apache.axis2.json.JSONOMBuilder"/>
        </messageBuilders>

</service>