[jdom-interest] BeanMapper

[Brett McLaughlin]

Alex Chaffee wrote:
> 
> Because there weren't enough XML Data Binding technologies already, I
> just wrote one using JDOM.

Not reading DeveloperWorks at IBM, are you ;-) There's a complete
framework, covered in 4 articles, there. It's based on JDOM and written
by yours truly ;-) Check it out: 

http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/data-binding1/?dwzone=xml
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/data-binding2/?dwzone=xml
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/data-binding3/?dwzone=xml


This moves from XML to Java and back.

;-)

-Brett


> 
> org.jdom.contrib.beans.BeanMapper allows you to easily (I'd say
> 'trivially' but that would be taunting the gods) make a JDOM tree from
> an existing JavaBean, and/or instantiate-and-fill one of your JavaBean
> classes based on a JDOM tree.  By default it maps element names and
> property names directly, but you can override that by setting
> mappings; e.g. getFoo() could map to <foo>foovalue</foo> (the default)
> or <bar>foovalue</bar> or <baz baf="foovalue">.
> 
> Usage:
> 
> BeanMapper mapper = new BeanMapper();
> 
> // Converting Bean to JDOM
> Document doc = mapper.toDocument(mybean);
> 
> // Converting JDOM to Bean
> TestBean mybean = mapper.toBean(doc);
> 
> It uses reflection, so it's not super-fast, but it's meant as a quick
> way to get started if you've got a a lot of beans already written and
> want to do XML import/export.
> 
> I seem to have misplaced my CVS password.  Jools, can you please
> contact me about checking this in?  In the meantime, anyone who wants
> to play, please email me privately.
> 
>  - A
> 
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