Categories: JAXB

JAXB Hello World Example

JAXB, stands for Java Architecture for XML Binding, using JAXB annotation to convert Java object to / from XML file. In this tutorial, we show you how to use JAXB to do following stuffs :

  • Marshalling – Convert a Java object into a XML file.
  • Unmarshalling – Convert XML content into a Java Object.

Technologies used in this article

  • JDK 1.6
  • JAXB 2.2.7

JAXB Hello World Example

Working with JAXB is easy, just annotate object with JAXB annotation, later use jaxbMarshaller.marshal() or jaxbMarshaller.unmarshal() to do the object / XML conversion.

Simple JAXB Marshalling Example: Converting Object into XML

Let’s see the steps to convert java object into XML document.

  1. Create POJO or bind the schema and generate the classes
  2. Create the JAXBContext object
  3. Create the Marshaller objects
  4. Create the content tree by using set methods
  5. Call the marshal method

Employee.java

package com.doj.jaxb;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

/**
 * @author Dinesh Rajput
 *
 */
@XmlRootElement
public class Employee {
 private int empid;  
    private String name;  
    private float salary;
    private String address;
 
    @XmlAttribute  
    public int getEmpid() {
  return empid;
 }
 public void setEmpid(int empid) {
  this.empid = empid;
 }
 @XmlElement  
 public String getName() {
  return name;
 }
 public void setName(String name) {
  this.name = name;
 }
 @XmlElement  
 public float getSalary() {
  return salary;
 }
 public void setSalary(float salary) {
  this.salary = salary;
 }
 @XmlElement  
 public String getAddress() {
  return address;
 }
 public void setAddress(String address) {
  this.address = address;
 }
    
    
}

 

  • @XmlRootElement specifies the root element for the xml document.
  • @XmlAttribute specifies the attribute for the root element.
  • @XmlElement specifies the sub element for the root element.

 

package com.doj.jaxb;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;

/**
 * @author Dinesh Rajput
 *
 */
public class ObjectToXMLTest {

 /**
  * @param args
  * @throws JAXBException 
  * @throws FileNotFoundException 
  */
 public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException, FileNotFoundException {
  JAXBContext contextObj = JAXBContext.newInstance(Employee.class);  
    
     Marshaller marshallerObj = contextObj.createMarshaller();  
     marshallerObj.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);  
     Employee emp = new Employee();
     emp.setEmpid(1111);
     emp.setName("Dinesh Rajput");
     emp.setSalary(100000);
     emp.setAddress("Noida");
     
     marshallerObj.marshal(emp, new FileOutputStream("employee.xml"));  
 }

}

Run this application as java program lets see following output file in application
employee.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<employee empid="1111">
    <address>Noida</address>
    <name>Dinesh Rajput</name>
    <salary>100000.0</salary>
</employee>

 

Download Source Code with libs
JaxBExample.zip

 

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!

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