"Andrew Welch" <> wrote on 04/13/2008 05:22:42 AM:
> On 13/04/2008, Michael Kay <> wrote:
> > > So to bring the thread back around to the original point -
> > > the easiest way to create an XML document is to use JAXB
> > > 2.1... annotate your outermost container class then just
> > > marshall it out. That's just 2 additional lines in its most
> > > basic form.
> >
> >
> > I suspect this is only the easiest way to do it in cases where there is
a
> > fairly close correspondence between the existing Java data
> structure and the
> > XML you want to create. Where I have had to do this, this has
> never been the
> > case.
>
> The solution there is to have an extra layer between your code and the
> pojos that map to the XML... Keep the XML to pojo really simple so
> there is a close correspondence between the two, moving any complex
> conversion to the extra layer.
With JAXB you can write an adapter [1] which does the conversion and then
install it using an annotation [2].
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
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[1]
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/adapters/XmlAdapter.html
[2]
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/adapters/XmlJavaTypeAdapter.html
Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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