Java and Xml Date Binding

More Java developers today want to work with XML, the technology that enables data to be transported intact over the Internet, but they don't have time to become XML experts. They will appreciate this new way of converting XML documents into Java objects, so those documents can be worked on and manipulated like any other Java object, then converted back to XML. Java & XML Data Binding provides an in-depth technical look at XML Data Binding, the process that automates the connection between XML documents and Java objects. The book offers complete documentation of all features in both the Sun Microsystems API and popular open source alternative implementations. It also gets into significant detail about when data binding is appropriate to use, and provides numerous practical examples of using data binding in applications.

Brett McLaughlin has been working in computers since the Logo days. (Remember the little triangle?) He currently specializes in building application infrastructure using Java and Java-related technologies. He has spent the last several years implementing these infrastructures at Nextel Communications and Allegiance Telecom, Inc. Brett is one of the co-founders of the Java Apache project Turbine, which builds a reusable component architecture for web application development using Java servlets. He is also a contributor of the EJBoss project, an open source EJB application server, and Cocoon, an open source XML web-publishing engine. He is author of the soon-to-be-released O'Reilly book, Building Java Enterprise Applications.

Preface

vii

Introduction

1

(11)

Low-Level APIs

1

(4)

High-Level APIs

5

(2)

What Is Data Binding?

7

(3)

What You'll Need

10

(2)

Theory and Concepts

12

(17)

Foundational APIs

12

(5)

Dependent APIs

17

(2)

Constraint-Modeled Data

19

(5)

API Transparence

24

(5)

Generating Classes

29

(18)

Process Flow

29

(3)

Creating the Constraints

32

(6)

Binding Schema Basics

38

(4)

Generating Java Source Files

42

(5)

Unmarshalling

47

(24)

Process Flow

47

(3)

Creating the XML

50

(6)

Converting to Java

56

(4)

Using the Results

60

(11)

Marshalling

71

(23)

Process Flow

71

(2)

Validating Java Objects

73

(7)

Converting to XML

80

(10)

Process Loops

90

(4)

Binding Schemas

94

(22)

The Basics

94

(2)

Structure and Global Options

96

(3)

Elements and Attributes

99

(8)

And More

107

(9)

Zeus

116

(19)

Process Flow

116

(2)

Installation and Setup

118

(1)

Glass Generation

119

(4)

Unmarshalling and Marshalling

123

(8)

Additional Features

131

(4)

Castor

135

(23)

Process Flow

135

(2)

Installation and Setup

137

(1)

Class Generation

137

(4)

Unmarshalling and Marshalling

141

(13)

Additional Features

154

(4)

Quick

158

(19)

Process Flow

158

(4)

Installation and Setup

162

(1)

Unmarshalling and Marshalling

163

(12)

Additional Features

175

(2)

Looking Forward

177

(6)

JAXB

177

(1)

Alternate Implementations

178

(2)

J2EE

180

(3)

A. Tools Reference

183

(5)

B. Quick Source Files

188

(5)

Index

193

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Java and Xml Date Binding

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