Java Code to XML/XSD without using Annotation

Question

I need to marshall and unmarshall a Java class to XML. The class in not owned by me, that I cannot add anotations so that I can use JAXB.

Is there a good way to conv

Answer 1

Have you looked at XStream ? It will deserialise/deserialise a standard POJO without annotations or XSDs. You can provide customisations to affect how elements appear in the XML and pretty much works out-of-the-box.