17.6. Arrays and Collections of JAXB Objects

 @XmlRootElement(name = "customer")
 @XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
 public class Customer
 {
@XmlElement
private String name;

public Customer()
{
}

public Customer(String name)
{
   this.name = name;
}

public String getName()
{
   return name;
}
 }

 @Path("/")
 public class MyResource
 {
   @PUT
   @Path("array")
   @Consumes("application/xml")
   public void putCustomers(Customer[] customers)
   {
      Assert.assertEquals("bill", customers[0].getName());
      Assert.assertEquals("monica", customers[1].getName());
   }

   @GET
   @Path("set")
   @Produces("application/xml")
   public Set<Customer> getCustomerSet()
   {
      HashSet<Customer> set = new HashSet<Customer>();
      set.add(new Customer("bill"));
      set.add(new Customer("monica"));

      return set;
   }


   @PUT
   @Path("list")
   @Consumes("application/xml")
   public void putCustomers(List<Customer> customers)
   {
      Assert.assertEquals("bill", customers.get(0).getName());
      Assert.assertEquals("monica", customers.get(1).getName());
   }
 }

 <collection>
<customer><name>bill</name></customer>
<customer><name>monica</name></customer>
 <collection>

 @Target({ElementType.PARAMETER, ElementType.METHOD})
 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
 public @interface Wrapped
 {
String element() default "collection";

String namespace() default "http://jboss.org/resteasy";

String prefix() default "resteasy";
 }

 <foo:list xmlns:foo="http://foo.org">
<customer><name>bill</name></customer>
<customer><name>monica</name></customer>
 </foo:list>

   @GET
   @Path("list")
   @Produces("application/xml")
   @Wrapped(element="list", namespace="http://foo.org", prefix="foo")
   public List<Customer> getCustomerSet()
   {
      List<Customer> list = new ArrayList<Customer>();
      list.add(new Customer("bill"));
      list.add(new Customer("monica"));

      return list;
   }