Using JAXB to dealing with your XML

Here i’m going to write down about how to deal with XML by using Java, especially with JAXB as you can see from the subject title.

Why JAXB ?

Of course, there are many ways to handle XML in Java. You could use JAXP API (Java API for XML Processing) which comprises DOMParser and SAXParser (old fashion style and complicated in my opinion ^_^), or XMLBeans which convert and transform your XML file to POJO class or vice versa. I thought the last one (i.e. XMLBeans) is much better compared to JAXP (this is my opinion, maybe you have different opinion). But…, nowadays, i think i would like to choose JAXB rather than XMLBeans. Why ? because (in my private opinion again ^_^), configure JAXB is much simpler than XMLBeans. Because its already become standard of Java EE. Starting from Java 6, its already bundled inside the JDK. So, you don’t need to include external libraries/APIs to use this API. That’s the reason why i choose JAXB instead of XMLBeans.
However, in some IDE (e.g. Oracle Weblogic Workshop), you can see there, that the IDE has already bundled XMLBeans as its standard API to dealing with XML. That’s why, i’m still using XMLBeans for some of my projects that using Oracle Weblogic Workshop as the IDE. However, i’m not talking about XMLBeans here. I will talk about JAXB here. Yes, sure you could find anywhere from the internet (just need to ask uncle google ^_^) about this JAXB. But, I will show you here by example (a simple example), about how easily configure and play with JAXB in order to handling your XML stuffs.