JiBX

JiBX is a powerful framework designed for binding XML data to Java objects. This project enables you to work with data from XML documents using your own class structures. With JiBX, you can easily convert your data to and from XML by simply following your own instructions.

JiBX boasts an outstanding efficiency that allows it to perform the translation between internal data structures and XML with ease, while still providing users with a high degree of control over the translation process. This framework uses binding definition documents to define the rules for how your Java objects are converted to or from XML.

Once you have compiled your source code into class files, you can execute the first part of the JiBX framework, the binding compiler. This compiler enhances binary class files produced by the Java compiler, adding code to handle converting instances of the classes to or from XML. After running the binding compiler, you can continue your normal process of assembling your application such as building jar files.

Alternatively, you can skip the binding compiler as a separate step and bind classes directly at runtime. However, this approach has some drawbacks. The second part of the JiBX framework is the binding runtime, which uses the enhanced class files generated by the binding compiler to build objects from an XML input document and generate an XML output document from objects.

JiBX runtime uses a parser implementing the XMLPull API for handling input documents, but is otherwise self-contained. Overall, JiBX is a powerful framework that allows you to work with XML data in a more convenient and efficient way.