Jersey default media type if no Accept header

Question

In the Jersey user guide, I read the following:

@GET
@Produces({"application/xml", "application/json"})
public String doGetAsXmlOrJson() {
    ...
}

If both are equally acceptable then the former will be chosen because it occurs first.

However, in my RESTful service (note that the JSON media type first appears):

@GET
@Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML})
public User getUser(@PathParam("id") int id) {
    User user = userDao.getUserById(id);
    return user;
}

A request like: curl -v -X GEThttp://localhost:8080/myapp/users/2 returns an XML response. If the request specifies the Accept header as json or xml, everything is fine.

EDIT:

curl --trace - -X GET http://localhost:8080/myapp/users/2
== Info: Adding handle: conn: 0xc2ad68
== Info: Adding handle: send: 0
== Info: Adding handle: recv: 0
== Info: Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
== Info: - Conn 0 (0xc2ad68) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
== Info: About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0)
== Info:   Trying 127.0.0.1...
== Info: Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
=> Send header, 97 bytes (0x61)
GET /myapp/users/2 HTTP/1.1..User-Agent: curl/7.31.0..Hostlocalhost:8080..Accept: */*....
<= Recv header, 17 bytes (0x11)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK..
== Info: Server Apache-Coyote/1.1 is not blacklisted
<= Recv header, 27 bytes (0x1b)
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1..
<= Recv header, 31 bytes (0x1f)
Content-Type: application/xml..
<= Recv header, 21 bytes (0x15)
Content-Length:234..
<= Recv header, 37 bytes (0x25)
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:26:17GMT..
<= Recv header, 2 bytes (0x2)
..
<= Recv data, 234 bytes (0xea)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><user id="2"><name>JOHN</name><surname>DOE</surname><heigth>172.5</heigth><weigth>70.5</weigth></user>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><user id="2"><name>JOHN</name><surname>DOE</surname><heigth>172.5</heigth><weigth>70.5</weigth></user>
== Info: Connection #0 to host localhost left intact

Question: Why, if there is no Accept (* / *) header, use xml as the media type?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

@Produces, (, "Accept: */*" ), , . Jersey 2.x , . . JERSEY-2635. , Jersey 2.16.