Hi all,

I am trying to build a RESTful web service... In short, I am having
trouble posting Java objects with member references from client side
to server side.

I have mostly followed the example under
"apache-cxf-2.3.3/samples/jax_rs/basic". I have two major problems
now...

1) Handle objects with references. For example, a customer may have a
list of orders, and an order may be linked back to a customer. So, how
can I (or indeed what is the best way to) post an "Order" object with
a link to a "Customer" object to "/customerservice/orders"?

2) The example uses annotations like "XmlRootElement" to enable sort
of automated conversioning from java objects to XML/json data. But
this conversion seems to be broken when I add references into a class
definition. For example, when I post an "Order" object to
"/customerservice/orders", the server reports "No message body reader
has been found for request class Order", (even though the customer ref
is set to null).

Thanks.
-Simon

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