[jdom-interest] converting Elements to objects

[Mike Brenner]

Jason Hunter wrote:
> The most elegant way I've seen to do this is JATO, but it's not a very 
> active project.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/jato
> It was written up in JavaWorld in the past.


Anyone know how JATO compares to:

Jakarta's xbeans (also called xmlbeans, which
create the classes from a schema
and gives you strong typing?),

or Castor (for those who are too good to have a schema but have xml schemas?)

or other famous wrappers?

Do these wrappers work on an in-memory DOM like JDOM builds,
or do they do SAX events?