diff --git a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/coding/encode/ResponseWriter.java b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/coding/encode/ResponseWriter.java
index 2d1d3f509..c2cf6aedd 100644
--- a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/coding/encode/ResponseWriter.java
+++ b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/coding/encode/ResponseWriter.java
@@ -72,6 +72,19 @@ default boolean isSetContentType() {
      */
     void write(T t, OutputStream out, ResponseProxy responseProxy) throws IOException, EncodingException;
 
+    /**
+     * Write object t to {@link OutputStream} out
+     *
+     * @param t             Object to write
+     * @param out           {@link OutputStream} to be written to
+
+     *
+     * @throws IOException       If an error occurs during writing
+     * @throws EncodingException if an errors occurs during encoding
+     *
+     */
+    void write(T t, OutputStream out) throws IOException, EncodingException;
+
     /**
      * Check if GZip is supported by this writer
      *
diff --git a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/EXIResponseWriter.java b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/EXIResponseWriter.java
index 54dbdf43f..0aa577635 100644
--- a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/EXIResponseWriter.java
+++ b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/EXIResponseWriter.java
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ public Set<ResponseWriterKey> getKeys() {
     @Override
     public void write(EXIObject<XmlObject> exiObject, OutputStream out, ResponseProxy responseProxy)
             throws IOException, EncodingException {
+        write(exiObject, out);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(EXIObject<XmlObject> exiObject, OutputStream out) throws IOException, EncodingException {
         byte[] bytes = getBytes(exiObject);
         try (InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)) {
             EXIResult result = new EXIResult(this.exiFactory.get());
diff --git a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/JSONResponseWriter.java b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/JSONResponseWriter.java
index 87fea4673..eedd97d7b 100644
--- a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/JSONResponseWriter.java
+++ b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/JSONResponseWriter.java
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ public Set<ResponseWriterKey> getKeys() {
     @Override
     public void write(JsonNode t, OutputStream out, ResponseProxy responseProxy)
             throws IOException {
+        write(t, out);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(JsonNode t, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         Json.print(out, t);
     }
 
diff --git a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/ServiceResponse.java b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/ServiceResponse.java
index 0852a91ec..0dc3f1cc6 100644
--- a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/ServiceResponse.java
+++ b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/ServiceResponse.java
@@ -24,13 +24,12 @@
 
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
 import org.n52.iceland.service.CommunicationObjectWithSoapHeader;
 import org.n52.janmayen.http.HTTPStatus;
 import org.n52.janmayen.http.MediaType;
 import org.n52.shetland.w3c.soap.SoapHeader;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
diff --git a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/SoapChainResponseWriter.java b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/SoapChainResponseWriter.java
index 72adaab60..39124955f 100644
--- a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/SoapChainResponseWriter.java
+++ b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/SoapChainResponseWriter.java
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ public void write(SoapChain chain, OutputStream out, ResponseProxy responseProxy
         }
     }
 
-    private void write(SoapChain chain, OutputStream out) throws EncodingException, IOException {
+    @Override
+    public void write(SoapChain chain, OutputStream out) throws EncodingException, IOException {
         String namespace = chain.getSoapResponse().getSoapNamespace();
         EncoderKey key = CodingHelper.getEncoderKey(namespace, chain.getSoapResponse());
         Encoder<?, SoapResponse> encoder = getEncoder(key);
diff --git a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/XmlResponseWriter.java b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/XmlResponseWriter.java
index 60b324633..632193c60 100644
--- a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/XmlResponseWriter.java
+++ b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/XmlResponseWriter.java
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ public Set<ResponseWriterKey> getKeys() {
     @Override
     public void write(XmlObject xml, OutputStream out,
                       ResponseProxy responseProxy) throws IOException {
+        write(xml, out);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(XmlObject xml, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
         xml.save(out, this.xmlOptions.get());
     }
 
diff --git a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/XmlResponseWriterFactory.java b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/XmlResponseWriterFactory.java
index 8a2d5206e..da2fae99b 100644
--- a/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/XmlResponseWriterFactory.java
+++ b/iceland/core/src/main/java/org/n52/iceland/response/XmlResponseWriterFactory.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 
 import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject;
 import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlOptions;
-
 import org.n52.iceland.coding.encode.ResponseWriter;
 import org.n52.iceland.coding.encode.ResponseWriterFactory;
 import org.n52.iceland.coding.encode.ResponseWriterKey;