JAXB XML Binding tutorial - Marshalling UnMarshalling Java Object to XML

XML binding is a concept of generating Java objects from XML and opposite  i.e. XML documents from Java object. Along with parsing XML documents using DOM and SAX parser, XML binding is a key concept to learn if you are working in a Java application which uses XML in any way e.g. for storing persistence data like user preferences or for transmitting messages between two system etc. XML binding is also a popular XML Interview question in Java. JAXB and XMLBeans are two common ways to achieve XML binding in Java.  XML binding, also known as XML marshaling and marshaling has two sides, first converting XML document to Java object, modify Java object and than converting back to XML file. Once you have XML document as Java object, You can use power of Java programming language to process and manipulate the XML elements, attributes etc. In last couple of Java XML tutorials we have seen How to parse XML using DOM parser and How to evaluate XPATH expression in Java. In this Java XML tutorial we will talk about JAXB (Java API for XML Binding) which is an annotation based library integrated into Java SDK. Beauty of JAXB is that it doesn't require XML Schema to generate XML documents from Java objects unlike XMLBeans and simply rely on POJO(Plain old Java objects) and annotations.

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