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Finally, JAXBProvider provides an experimental support for marshalling response types of methods annotated with @XmlJavaTypeAdapter annotations.
It's likely that at some point of time JAX-RS runtime will be capable of automatically generating such adapters.
Aegis Data Binding
Use org.apache.cxf.provider.AegisElementProvider to start doing Aegis with JAX-RS
XMLBeans
Use org.apache.cxf.provider.XmlBeansElementProvider to start doing XmlBeans with JAX-RS
Content type negotiation
One of the coolest thing of REST is that the same resource can be served using multiple representations. @Produces and @Consumes annotations are used to declare the supported request and response media types.
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