Grails : Rest Service with JAXB parsing – PART 1

In this blog I will show how RESTful Web Service can be developed in Grails without the use of any plugins. I will just make use of Grails Controller and JAXB parser to marshal/unmarshal xml.I have divided this into 2 parts blog series. In this blog I will cover very basic usage. In next blog it will be little more advanced with Exception handling.So let’s develop a REST service to create Employee Details. Suppose we have a xml in following format which represents Employee Details.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Employee_Details> <employee_name>Gagan</employee_name> <employee_age>28</employee_age> <employee_department>SOFTWARE</employee_department> </Employee_Details