Spring Xstream

Spring Xstream
 
Hello Friends i am going to demonstrate Spring Xstream,Xstream is a library to marshal objects to xml and vice-versa without requirement of any mapping file. Notice that castor requires an mapping file.

Here is sample code:
 //object that i am serializing using Xstream
package org.demo;

public class Employee {

    private int id;
    private String name;
    private float salary;
   
    public Employee() { }
    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }
    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    public float getSalary() {
        return salary;
    }
    public void setSalary(float salary) {
        this.salary = salary;
    }


}


//code of conversion from java object into xml form
Client.java
    package org.demo;

import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.oxm.Marshaller;
import org.springframework.oxm.XmlMappingException;

import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Client
{

   
   
    public static void main(String[] args) throws XmlMappingException, IOException, BeansException
    {
       
            ApplicationContext context= new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring.xml");
           
           
            Marshaller marshaller=(Marshaller)context.getBean("xstreamMarshellerBean");
           
            Employee e=new Employee();
            e.setId(1);
            e.setName("Dhruti");
            e.setSalary(20000);
            marshaller.marshal(e,new StreamResult(new FileWriter("employee.xml")));
           
        }   

}

spring.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans  
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd"> 
     
<bean id="xstreamMarshallerBean" class="org.springframework.oxm.xstream.XStreamMarshaller" scope="singelton"> 
    <property name="annotatedClasses" value="org.demo.Employee"/> 

</bean>

</beans>

hope you will get my point.in next post i will demonstrate you how to work with spring caster .
thanks
for any query ping me on pathak.nisarg@yahoo.com