A unique
open source Java library called XStream is available for serializing
and deserializing Java objects to and from XML. A small team of developers
contribute to the development of the XStream Java library.
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To
use this library you have to use the following import statement,
import
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;
Once you
have this import statement you can create the XStream object using the
statement like,
XStream
xs = new XStream();
Let us
suppose you have a class called 'person' with member variables like
'name' and 'location', which is defined as below,
class person
{
string name;
string location;
}
The above
class can be serialized using the XStream object as given below,
String
xml = xs.toXML(person);
Now you
can print the string xml using the print statement. Assuming that you
have set the values of the member variables within the program, you
would get an XML output with the string values set as the text values
of the elements 'name' and 'location'. The output would also include
the <xml version="1.0"?> line as the first line in the
XML document.
Thus by
using XStream you can serialize or deserialize Java objects to XML and
from XML. Lot of examples using the XStream library is available in
the internet.
