XML-to-Java, and Java-to-XML

[Simon St.Laurent]

At 02:37 PM 3/31/99 -0600, Raghunandan Havaldar wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am experimenting with mapping an XML document to
>Java object model, and vice-versa. Have a couple of
>things on mind - using Java Beans, Reflection mechanism
>and (mapper, lookup classes). 
>
>I was wondering if somebody out there has worked and
>developed some kind of a model to do this transformation.
>(am sure someone has given it a try). 

Take a look at MDSAX and Coins on the JXML.com site - www.jxml.com.  
It sounds like it's pretty much exactly what you're looking for.  
You specify the mapping from elements to classes in a ContextML 
document, itself XML, and it builds a processing structure into 
which you can feed your documents to build your classes.  

The best part is that MDSAX/Coins handles all the weird work for you, 
including reflection.  You can even feed documents with different 
vocabularies into the same structure by specifying a different ContextML
document. With MDSAX it's just document->Beans, while with Coins you 
can go back from Beans->document.

Simon St.Laurent
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