diff --git a/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/ResourceHttpMessageConverter.java b/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/ResourceHttpMessageConverter.java
index a17233a5649..978b9f32e9d 100644
--- a/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/ResourceHttpMessageConverter.java
+++ b/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/ResourceHttpMessageConverter.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2011 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -18,15 +18,12 @@ package org.springframework.http.converter;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.List;
 import javax.activation.FileTypeMap;
 import javax.activation.MimetypesFileTypeMap;
 
 import org.springframework.core.io.ByteArrayResource;
 import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
 import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpInputMessage;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpOutputMessage;
 import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
@@ -44,49 +41,28 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
  * @author Arjen Poutsma
  * @since 3.0.2
  */
-public class ResourceHttpMessageConverter implements HttpMessageConverter<Resource> {
+public class ResourceHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractHttpMessageConverter<Resource> {
 
 	private static final boolean jafPresent =
 			ClassUtils.isPresent("javax.activation.FileTypeMap", ResourceHttpMessageConverter.class.getClassLoader());
 
-	public boolean canRead(Class<?> clazz, MediaType mediaType) {
+	public ResourceHttpMessageConverter() {
+		super(MediaType.ALL);
+	}
+	@Override
+	protected boolean supports(Class<?> clazz) {
 		return Resource.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz);
 	}
 
-	public boolean canWrite(Class<?> clazz, MediaType mediaType) {
-		return Resource.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz);
-	}
-
-	public List<MediaType> getSupportedMediaTypes() {
-		return Collections.singletonList(MediaType.ALL);
-	}
-
-	public Resource read(Class<? extends Resource> clazz, HttpInputMessage inputMessage)
+	@Override
+	protected Resource readInternal(Class<? extends Resource> clazz, HttpInputMessage inputMessage)
 			throws IOException, HttpMessageNotReadableException {
-
 		byte[] body = FileCopyUtils.copyToByteArray(inputMessage.getBody());
 		return new ByteArrayResource(body);
 	}
 
-	public void write(Resource resource, MediaType contentType, HttpOutputMessage outputMessage)
-			throws IOException, HttpMessageNotWritableException {
-
-		HttpHeaders headers = outputMessage.getHeaders();
-		if (contentType == null || contentType.isWildcardType() || contentType.isWildcardSubtype()) {
-			contentType = getContentType(resource);
-		}
-		if (contentType != null) {
-			headers.setContentType(contentType);
-		}
-		Long contentLength = getContentLength(resource, contentType);
-		if (contentLength != null) {
-			headers.setContentLength(contentLength);
-		}
-		FileCopyUtils.copy(resource.getInputStream(), outputMessage.getBody());
-		outputMessage.getBody().flush();
-	}
-
-	private MediaType getContentType(Resource resource) {
+	@Override
+	protected MediaType getDefaultContentType(Resource resource) {
 		if (jafPresent) {
 			return ActivationMediaTypeFactory.getMediaType(resource);
 		}
@@ -95,10 +71,22 @@ public class ResourceHttpMessageConverter implements HttpMessageConverter<Resour
 		}
 	}
 
-	protected Long getContentLength(Resource resource, MediaType contentType) throws IOException {
-		return resource.contentLength();
+	@Override
+	protected Long getContentLength(Resource resource, MediaType contentType) {
+		try {
+			return resource.contentLength();
+		}
+		catch (IOException e) {
+			return null;
+		}
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	protected void writeInternal(Resource resource, HttpOutputMessage outputMessage)
+			throws IOException, HttpMessageNotWritableException {
+		FileCopyUtils.copy(resource.getInputStream(), outputMessage.getBody());
+		outputMessage.getBody().flush();
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Inner class to avoid hard-coded JAF dependency.
diff --git a/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/StringHttpMessageConverter.java b/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/StringHttpMessageConverter.java
index 2b2ba6f7f76..b621d5ebfe8 100644
--- a/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/StringHttpMessageConverter.java
+++ b/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/StringHttpMessageConverter.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2011 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -67,25 +67,19 @@ public class StringHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractHttpMessageConverter<Str
 
 	@Override
 	protected String readInternal(Class clazz, HttpInputMessage inputMessage) throws IOException {
-		MediaType contentType = inputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType();
-		Charset charset = contentType.getCharSet() != null ? contentType.getCharSet() : DEFAULT_CHARSET;
+		Charset charset = getContentTypeCharset(inputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType());
 		return FileCopyUtils.copyToString(new InputStreamReader(inputMessage.getBody(), charset));
 	}
 
 	@Override
 	protected Long getContentLength(String s, MediaType contentType) {
-		if (contentType != null && contentType.getCharSet() != null) {
-			Charset charset = contentType.getCharSet();
-			try {
-				return (long) s.getBytes(charset.name()).length;
-			}
-			catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
-				// should not occur
-				throw new InternalError(ex.getMessage());
-			}
+		Charset charset = getContentTypeCharset(contentType);
+		try {
+			return (long) s.getBytes(charset.name()).length;
 		}
-		else {
-			return null;
+		catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
+			// should not occur
+			throw new InternalError(ex.getMessage());
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -94,8 +88,7 @@ public class StringHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractHttpMessageConverter<Str
 		if (writeAcceptCharset) {
 			outputMessage.getHeaders().setAcceptCharset(getAcceptedCharsets());
 		}
-		MediaType contentType = outputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType();
-		Charset charset = contentType.getCharSet() != null ? contentType.getCharSet() : DEFAULT_CHARSET;
+		Charset charset = getContentTypeCharset(outputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType());
 		FileCopyUtils.copy(s, new OutputStreamWriter(outputMessage.getBody(), charset));
 	}
 
@@ -110,4 +103,13 @@ public class StringHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractHttpMessageConverter<Str
 		return this.availableCharsets;
 	}
 
+	private Charset getContentTypeCharset(MediaType contentType) {
+		if (contentType != null && contentType.getCharSet() != null) {
+			return contentType.getCharSet();
+		}
+		else {
+			return DEFAULT_CHARSET;
+		}
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverter.java b/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverter.java
index 4ba1aacfee8..e9495032632 100644
--- a/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverter.java
+++ b/org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverter.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2011 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package org.springframework.http.converter.xml;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
 import javax.xml.transform.Result;
 import javax.xml.transform.Source;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
@@ -31,13 +32,14 @@ import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
 import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
 
 import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConversionException;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotWritableException;
 
 /**
- * Implementation of {@link org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConverter}
- * that can read and write {@link Source} objects.
+ * Implementation of {@link org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConverter} that can read and write {@link
+ * Source} objects.
  *
  * @author Arjen Poutsma
  * @since 3.0
@@ -84,6 +86,21 @@ public class SourceHttpMessageConverter<T extends Source> extends AbstractXmlHtt
 		return new ByteArrayInputStream(bos.toByteArray());
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	protected Long getContentLength(T t, MediaType contentType) {
+		if (t instanceof DOMSource) {
+			try {
+				CountingOutputStream os = new CountingOutputStream();
+				transform(t, new StreamResult(os));
+				return os.count;
+			}
+			catch (TransformerException ex) {
+				// ignore
+			}
+		}
+		return null;
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	protected void writeToResult(T t, HttpHeaders headers, Result result) throws IOException {
 		try {
@@ -94,4 +111,24 @@ public class SourceHttpMessageConverter<T extends Source> extends AbstractXmlHtt
 		}
 	}
 
+	private static class CountingOutputStream extends OutputStream {
+
+		private long count = 0;
+
+		@Override
+		public void write(int b) throws IOException {
+			count++;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public void write(byte[] b) throws IOException {
+			count += b.length;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
+			count += len;
+		}
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/org.springframework.web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverterTests.java b/org.springframework.web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverterTests.java
index bb20f8a2130..3dbbb80e5f2 100644
--- a/org.springframework.web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverterTests.java
+++ b/org.springframework.web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/SourceHttpMessageConverterTests.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2010 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2011 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.springframework.http.converter.xml;
 
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
 import javax.xml.transform.Source;
@@ -24,7 +25,6 @@ import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
 import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource;
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
 
-import static org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLAssert.*;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ import org.springframework.http.MockHttpInputMessage;
 import org.springframework.http.MockHttpOutputMessage;
 import org.springframework.util.FileCopyUtils;
 
+import static org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLAssert.*;
+
 /** @author Arjen Poutsma */
 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 public class SourceHttpMessageConverterTests {
@@ -100,7 +102,7 @@ public class SourceHttpMessageConverterTests {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void write() throws Exception {
+	public void writeDOMSource() throws Exception {
 		DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
 		documentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
 		Document document = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
@@ -115,7 +117,34 @@ public class SourceHttpMessageConverterTests {
 				outputMessage.getBodyAsString(Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
 		assertEquals("Invalid content-type", new MediaType("application", "xml"),
 				outputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType());
+		assertEquals("Invalid content-length", outputMessage.getBodyAsBytes().length,
+				outputMessage.getHeaders().getContentLength());
+	}
+	
+	@Test
+	public void writeSAXSource() throws Exception {
+		String xml = "<root>Hello World</root>";
+		SAXSource saxSource = new SAXSource(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
+
+		MockHttpOutputMessage outputMessage = new MockHttpOutputMessage();
+		converter.write(saxSource, null, outputMessage);
+		assertXMLEqual("Invalid result", "<root>Hello World</root>",
+				outputMessage.getBodyAsString(Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
+		assertEquals("Invalid content-type", new MediaType("application", "xml"),
+				outputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType());
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void writeStreamSource() throws Exception {
+		String xml = "<root>Hello World</root>";
+		StreamSource streamSource = new StreamSource(new StringReader(xml));
+
+		MockHttpOutputMessage outputMessage = new MockHttpOutputMessage();
+		converter.write(streamSource, null, outputMessage);
+		assertXMLEqual("Invalid result", "<root>Hello World</root>",
+				outputMessage.getBodyAsString(Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
+		assertEquals("Invalid content-type", new MediaType("application", "xml"),
+				outputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType());
+	}
 
 }