What is the use of @Produces("application/pdf") in real time ?

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  Jason Estibeiro

  The #-Link-Snipped-# annotation is used to specify the MIME media types of representations a resource can produce and send back to the client. Also, in the response sent back to the client the response header `Content-Type` is set to the MIME type passed to the annotation.
  
  So,
  

  @Produces(“text/plain“) 

  will generate a response which will contain just plain text.
  
  

  @Produces(“application/pdf“)

  will generate a response with a document in .pdf format.
  
  This documentation #-Link-Snipped-# has explained it very well. Do have a look at it.
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  Roshni Prasad

  Jason Estibeiro

  The #-Link-Snipped-# annotation is used to specify the MIME media types of representations a resource can produce and send back to the client. Also, in the response sent back to the client the response header `Content-Type` is set to the MIME type passed to the annotation.
  
  So,
  

  @Produces(“text/plain“) 

  will generate a response which will contain just plain text.
  
  

  @Produces(“application/pdf“)

  will generate a response with a document in .pdf format.
  
  This documentation #-Link-Snipped-# has explained it very well. Do have a look at it.

  Hi Jason,
  Thanks for the reply.
  I would like to tell you that I am aware of the basic usage of @Produces.
  What I wanted to know is can we use @Produces(“application/pdf“) in-order to convert a java object to PDF file?