Can one validate marshalled XML with JAXB 2.0?

Question

Apparently in version 2 of JAXB - the validator class has been deprecated - does this mean the marshaller is automatically validating your XML? If so it doesn\'t seem to be

Answer 1

If you are looking to verify the Java objects generate valid XML according to a schema, look at the JAXB-Verification project:

https://jaxb-verification.dev.java.net/

It is a JAXB RI plugin to xjc that will generate an ObjectVerifier implementation for the XML schema. This avoids having to marshal the Java objects in order to validate the XML.