XML directly to java classes

[Petr Blahos]

Hi all,

I was wondering if there is a library that will allow me read
xml directly into a structure of Java classes. Example:
Let's have an xml:

<item name="item1" correction="-85">
  <node data="random1"/>
  <node data="fixed"/>
</item>

And java classes:

class item {
  String name;
  List nodes;
}
class node {
  String data;
}

This library would read the xml and build the corresponding
structure of classes. Any hints?

Thanks, Petr

[Lasse Koskela]

Take a look at XStream.

[Daniel Mayer]

Alternatives are http://www.castor.org/ and http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester/