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5 ways to customize Spring MVC JSON/XML output

To adhere to guidelines or requirements, API designers may want to control how JSON/XML responses are formatted. Spring Web makes use of Jackson to perform JSON/XML serialization. Therefore, to customize our output format, we must configure the Jackson processor. Spring Web offers XML-based or Java-based approaches to handling configuration. In this article, we will look at the Java-based configuration. Enable XML output First of all, if you have created your project through https://start.