Multiple top level items in a JSON response?

I'm trying to return a JSON object from a request which is working fine. The problem is I'm using a 3rd party javascript plugin and it's looking for something at the top level, but Spring is returning the object first. Here's an example of what I mean.

Code:

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@RequestMapping(...)
public MyModel getItems(...) {
    ...
    return myModel;
}

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Here is what is returned to the browser:
{"myModel":{"myItem1":2,"myItem2":2}}

Is there a way to only show the sub-items as the top level instead of the main object?
What I want is this:
{"myItem1":2,"myItem2":2}

The standard spring mvc setup with jackson would return what you want: {"myItem1":2,"myItem2":2}.
Normally I would say a @ResponseBody is missing.
How did you setup the json marshalling?

Yep - @ResponseBody did the trick. I think without that it was putting my object in the model before passing it back to the browser.

Thanks.