xml to object and vice versa

[Hendra Kurniawan]

Is there any framework that automates XML to POJO and vice versa? something like jackson to convert JSON to object. Does Axis2 have thi capability or does java already have built-in implementation for this? thanks

[Aniruddh Joshi]

xstream is one of the most popular ones.
You can use it for JSON too.

[E Armitage]

Hendra Kurniawan wrote:Is there any framework that automates XML to POJO and vice versa? something like jackson to convert JSON to object. Does Axis2 have thi capability or does java already have built-in implementation for this? thanks

JAXB is now part of the standard API.
You can just use JAXB.marshal and JAXB.unmarshal methods

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/JAXB.html

[Hendra Kurniawan]

I'm a bit confused about this xml:

<name part="first">Henry</name>
<name part="last">Jones</name>

why not like this:

<name>
    <first>Henry</first>
    <last>Jones</last>
</name>

[Paul Clapham]

Why not, indeed? Those are two ways of describing the same data. But I don't see where the confusion is, there's nothing wrong with having two or more ways of doing the same thing.

However that's not the end of the story. There are reasons why you would use attributes and there are reasons why you would use elements. The most obvious is that an element can't have two attributes with the same name, but it can have two child elements with the same name. And from a design point of view, using an attribute signals that there can't be duplicates. The debate goes much farther than that, though, I suggest you google for xml element versus attribute if you really want to get into that.