Creating Object from XML file

[Purvesh Vora]

Hi,

Can you please tell me which tool( or probably which of the API) could be used for creating java object from an input XML file.

I heard that castor is the one that supports this. What jaxb does? if both of them are supporting the same thing then which one is better?

[Peer Reynders]

JAXB 2.0 would be my choice as it is part of Java 6 SE anyway.

[Paulo Salgado]

I second that, specially if you're thinking about developing Web Services with Java, as data binding has been removed from the new JAX-RPC (JAX-WS). J2EE vendors will need to provide or use a JAXB implementation to be compliant.

As a feedback we've been using JAXB 1.1 for over a year without problems. Our XML Schemas are somewhat complex and JAXB handles them nicely, something that WSDL2Java from both Apache Axis and IBM Websphere didn't.

Regards.

[Purvesh Vora]

Thank you Peer & Paulo.

[gopinathang nathan]

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