O'Reilly Open Source Convention - August 1-5, 2005

Session
JAXB and XML Processing in Java
Satya Komatineni, President, Active Intellect, Inc.

Track: Java
Date: Friday, August 5th, 2005
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Location: Portland 252
IT projects are increasingly relying on XML for data processing activities and transformation activities. IT developers are increasingly adapting JAXB for their XML work. But the dependency of JAXB on a schema is leaving them baffled for situation where it becomes a maintenance issue for managing all those schemas.

This tutorial explores and teaches JAXB for where it is appropriate, and covers alternative strategies with code example for working with your XML related assets. Topics include:

- Short summary of XML tools in Java
. JAXB
. Castor
. XMLBeans
. XMLCommons
- JAXB Explored
. Downloading/Installation
. Planning a sample project
. Creating an XSD
. Creating the jar file
. Walking through the source code
- JAXB customization
. Approaches to customization
. Customization examples
. Customizing parent classes
. Inheriting from jaxb generated classes
- XSDs a short lession
. Creating XSDs using regular editors
. Creating XSDs using XMLSpy
. Generating XSDs from java source code
- Alternative strategies for working with XML
. Generating java code with out depending on a schema
. Loose binding
. Generating XML from databases
. Consuming XML into databases

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