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Dependencies

If you use maven, add this to your pom.xml :

<dependency>
  <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
  <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
  <version>${jaxb-api.version}</version>
</dependency>

Model

Let’s deal with the following model for our examples :

User.java :

@XmlRootElement
@XmlType(propOrder={"fistname", "name"})
public class User {
 
	private String name = null;
	private String fistname = null;
 
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
 
	@XmlElement(name="name")
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
 
	public String getFistname() {
		return fistname;
	}
 
	public void setFistname(String fistname) {
		this.fistname = fistname;
	}	
}

Users.java :

@XmlRootElement
public class Users {
 
	private List<User> users = new ArrayList<User>();
 
	@XmlElement(name="user")
	public List<User> getUsers() {
		return users;
	}
 
	public void setUsers(List<User> users) {
		this.users = users;
	} 
}

Convert Object to XML

Let’s create a user :

// User john doe :
User user = new User();
user.setFistname("john");
user.setName("doe");		
 
// Add the user to the user list (users)
Users users = new Users();
users.getUsers().add(user);

Now convert it to xml :

File outputXml = "/tmp/users.xml";
 
JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Users.class);
Marshaller marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
 
// output pretty printed
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
 
// marshal object to xml
marshaller.marshal(users, outputXml );

The file “/tmp/users.xml” will look like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<users>
    <user>
        <fistname>john</fistname>
        <name>doe</name>
    </user>
</users>

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Convert Object to XSD

Convert Users to xsd :

File outputXsd = "/tmp/users.xsd";
 
SchemaOutputResolver schemaOutputResolver = new SchemaOutputResolver () {			
  @Override
  public Result createOutput(String arg0, String arg1) throws IOException {
    return new StreamResult(outputXsd );
  }
 
};
 
JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Users.class);
jaxbContext.generateSchema(schemaOutputResolver);

The file “/tmp/users.xsd” will look like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<xs:schema version="1.0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 
  <xs:element name="user" type="user"/>
 
  <xs:element name="users" type="users"/>
 
  <xs:complexType name="users">
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element ref="user" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
 
  <xs:complexType name="user">
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="fistname" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
      <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

Convert XML to Object

File xmlFile = "/tmp/users.xml";
 
JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Users.class);
Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
Users users = (Users) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xmlFile );

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Dependencies

Model

Convert Object to XML

Convert Object to XSD

Convert XML to Object