I'm trying to put together a component that makes a WebClient request to a 
JAX-RS (Jersey) REST service and unmarshals json into a Java object.  
Unfortunately, I'm using CXF 2.3.2, and I can't really upgrade at this point.

I was given the URL to send for the service, and I can see what JSON it's 
returning.  From that, I tried to construct a POJO with Xml annotations, and 
then I constructed the WebClient call to get the response and unmarshal into 
the POJO.  I first did a query returning String, so I could verify I get the 
JSON at least.  That part works fine.

The query that specifies the POJO type is failing, however.

When I defined the POJO, I only defined one property that I know is coming in 
the JSON.  I just wanted to verify the single property gets set before I 
defined more properties that I need to get.  I assume other properties present 
in the JSON will be ignored.

The response I get looks something like this:

{"copyright":"<copyright 
stuff>","termsurl":"http://...","logourl":"http://...","status":200,"resp_code":0,"results":[{"id":"M100"},{"id":"M101"}]}

My POJO looks like this:

@XmlType(name = "queryResponse")
@XmlRootElement(name = "queryResponse")
public class QueryResponse {
    private String  copyright;
    
    @XmlElement
    public String getCopyright() { return this.copyright; }
    
    public void setCopyright(String copyright) { this.copyright = copyright; }
}

When I try to run the query, I get the following:

UnmarshalException: unexpected element (uri:"", local:"copyright"). Expected 
elements are <{}queryResponse>]

Is the problem that I don't have a top-level element in the json called 
"queryResponse"?  If so, I can't change the service that's returning this data.

In my pom, I'm specifying "cxf-rt-core", "cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs", 
"cxf-rt-databinding-jaxb", "cxf-rt-bindings-http", and "cxf-rt-transports-http".

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