Creating an Object to XML and XML to Object to using JAXB marshalling

JAXB stands for Java Architecture for XML Binding, using JAXB annotation to convert Java object to / from XML file

Create a Person Object for this object to convert to / from XML , we should annotate with JAXB annotation .Root element/Class with @XmlRootElement and @XmlElement for variables.

Using below snippet code we can create a file from Object to XML ,using JAXBMarshaller

        Person person = new Person();

        person.setFirstName("Steven");

        person.setLastName("Kinggfdgdf);

        person.setPhone("515.123.4567);

        person.setEmail("SKING);

        try {

            File file = new File("C:\\file.xml");

            JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class);

            Marshaller jaxbMarshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();

            // output pretty printed

            jaxbMarshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);

            jaxbMarshaller.marshal(person, file);

        } catch (PropertyException pe) {

            pe.printStackTrace();

        } catch (JAXBException jaxbe) {

            jaxbe.printStackTrace();

        }

We can also create a String from Object to XML , here we will use java.io.StringWriter 

        Person person = new Person();

        person.setFirstName("Steven");

        person.setLastName("Kinggfdgdf);

        person.setPhone("515.123.4567);

        person.setEmail("SKING);

        try {

            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

            JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class);

            Marshaller jaxbMarshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();

            // output pretty printed

            jaxbMarshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);

            jaxbMarshaller.marshal(person, sw);

            System.out.println(sw.toString());

        } catch (PropertyException pe) {

            pe.printStackTrace();

        } catch (JAXBException jaxbe) {

            jaxbe.printStackTrace();

        }

Output

Below snippet code is to create a Object from XML using JAXBUnmarshaller

            File file = new File("C:\\file.xml");

            JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class);

            Unmarshaller jaxbUnmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();

            Person person = (Person)jaxbUnmarshaller.unmarshal(file);

            System.out.println(person);

Output

Person [email=SKING, firstName=Steven, lastName=Kinggfdgdf, phone = 515.123.4567]