return multiple value from one method

You need to return an object which holds both values. You could create a class for this purpose. The class can have two getter methods for retrieving the values.

It is not possible to return more than one value from a method in java. You can set multiple value into Map or List or create a custom class and can return that object.

public Map<String,String> getAudioAndPromptFunction(String audioTag,String langMode ) { Map<String,String> map =new HashMap(); ... map.put("audioBean",StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(audioBean.getAudio())); map.put("promptBean",StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(promptBean.getPrompt()); return map; } 

or you can create a custom bean class like.

public class AudioPrompt{ private String audioBean; private String promptBean; ... } public AudioPrompt getAudioAndPromptFunction(String audioTag,String langMode ) { AudioPrompt audioPrompt =new AudioPrompt(); ... audioPrompt.set(StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(audioBean.getAudio())); audioPrompt.set(StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(promptBean.getPrompt()); return audioPrompt ; } 

You'll need to return an object that includes both of the values. This could be an array with two elements, a Pair<A,B> class (which holds two generic values, typically from some pan-project utility library), or a method-specific class such as:

public class UserFunctionXmlPairing { public final String audioBeanXml; public final String promptBeanXml; } 

Create a new class that holds your two strings and return that.

class AudioPromptPair { private String audio; private String prompt; public AudioPromptPair(String audio, String prompt) { this.audio = audio; this.prompt = prompt; } // add getters and setters } 

You can wrap all the values you wish into a single object and return that:

public class Prompts { private Map<String, Object> prompts = new HashMap<String, Object>(); public void addPrompt(String name, Object prompt) { this.prompts.put(name, prompt); } public Object getPrompt(String name) { this.prompts.get(name); } } 

It's even easier if your AudioBean and PromptBean have a common super class or interface.

My preference would be to lose the "Bean" in your class names. AudioPrompt and TextPrompt would be preferred.