Java & XML Data Binding

Brett McLaughlin has been working in computers since the Logo days. (Remember the little triangle?) He currently specializes in building application infrastructure using Java and Java-related technologies. He has spent the last several years implementing these infrastructures at Nextel Communications and Allegiance Telecom, Inc. Brett is one of the co-founders of the Java Apache project Turbine, which builds a reusable component architecture for web application development using Java servlets. He is also a contributor of the EJBoss project, an open source EJB application server, and Cocoon, an open source XML web-publishing engine. He is author of the soon-to-be-released O'Reilly book, Building Java Enterprise Applications.

Introduction - low-level APIs, high-level APIs, what is data binding?, what you'll need; theory and concepts - foundational APIs, dependent APIs, constraint-modelled data, API transparence; generating classes - process flow creating and the constraints, binding Schema basics, generating Java source files; unmarshalling - process flow, creating the XML, converting to Java, using the results; marshalling - process flow, validating Java objects, converting to XML, process loops; binding Schemas - the basics, structure and global options, elements and attributes and more...; Zeus - process flow, installation and setup, class generation, unmarshalling and marshalling, additional features; castor - process flow installation and set up, class generation, unmarshalling and marshalling, additional features; quick - process flow, installation and setup, unmarshalling and marshalling, additional features; looking forward - JAXB, alternate implementations, J2EE; tools reference; quick source files.