object to XML

[carlos Muller]

Hello Forum, I need to convert a object to XML, I find a "function" (Imagine that is not so simple) like:

class Cone{
String radius = "0.2";
String bottom = "true";
}

-> public String function??(Class Cone, Object obj) ->

<Cone>
<radius>0.2</radius>
<bottom>true</bottom>
</Cone>

I think the packages javax.xml.* can help me, but I don't see How. Somebody Knows Where can I find information of this?

Thanks.

[Pradeep bhatt]

Check for JAXB.

[Balaji Loganathan]

Hi Carlos,
This question has nothing to do with Webservices forum, so I am moving this to XML and Related Technologies forum.
Please continue your discussion there.
Thank you.
Balaji

[Chetya Benkipuri]

You can have a look at jibx as well
http://jibx.sourceforge.net/

or XmlBeans at
http://xmlbeans.apache.org/

Personally,I feel jibx is better.
The site is easy to understand.XmlBeans tutorials are buggy or atleast they don't work as the ppl say.

Hope this helps.

[raminaa niilian]

Hi
Can you please help me to select an XML to java Object and vice versa framework ?
I need it to be fast in converting an XML file to a java Object and vice versa.


Thanks

[Kim Visser]

JAXB might be your guess ..
but there are others, have a look here:

Bindmark @ dev.java.net

[William Brogden]

Personally, my choice would be to give your Java object a outputToXML( PrintStream ) method and a constructor that takes an XML Element and extracts the data it needs.
This is guaranteed to be faster than any other approach.
Bill

[Peer Reynders]

Originally posted by William Brogden:
give your Java object a outputToXML( PrintStream ) method and a constructor that takes an XML Element and extracts the data it needs.

While not essential, StAX's input and output API can be useful with that type of an approach - though it will require some additional JAR's.
An Introduction to StAX
JSR 173: Streaming API for XML
Sun's API and implementation JARs for StAX can be found in the JWSDP 1.6 for StAX 1 and in JWSDP 2.0 for StAX 2.0.