XMLBeans: Converting JavaBeans to XML?

[Max Tomlinson]

Hi-
we've been using XMLbeans successfully in our project for quite some time and now have a need to convert java objects back into XML, reconstructing a new XML doc from the modified beans.
Can anyone suggest the best way of going about this?
thanks!
Max

[James Boswell]

Why not give XStream a try?

[Max Tomlinson]

thanks for the quick response, James - I'll give it a try
Max

[Max Tomlinson]

So I've been looking at xstream and I am not sure it will do what I need:

I want to:
1) pass json as text from a client to an ejb and create a pojo - xstream can do this
2) generate xml from the pojo with xstream - xstream can do this too BUT - no namespace support - I need namespaces in my xml.

Anyone have any solutions for this (creating xml with namespaces?)

thanks!
Max

[Paul Clapham]

There's a ton of Java-to-XML-binding tools available (and that's a clue to your google keywords ). JAXB is the most mainstream but there are others that aren't obsolete.

[Max Tomlinson]

Forget JAXB - way too complex and problematic to work with (anyone ever have fun with web services using JAXB?)
I really liked what xstream did - I just wanted it to do a bit more - handle a ns - oh well

[Paul Clapham]

You could create the XML without namespaces and then run an XSL transformation to produce a similar document with the namespace you need.

(I have to admit -- I would rather not wade into the XML Schema tarpit either.)

[James Boswell]

Max

Check out the link below. May provide you with a workaround to enable XStream to become namespace aware.

http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?47002-XStream-and-Namespaces

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