Issue with serializing Hibernate objects using XStream

Question

I\'ve been facing this issue where, the hibernate objects on serialization produces unexpect xmls containing all the instrumented code from Hibernate.

We did some cleani

Answer 1

Haven't used it, but xstream-for-beans seems to fit (quoting):

This project provides implementation of mappers and converters that enhance XStream on following aspects:

1. Serialize objects as they are exposed by getters and setters. XStream features available for fields shall work for properties defined for getter/setter proprerties.
2. Sanitize serialization of managed objects: automatically omit irrelevant fields and class information.
3. Handle "offline" fields and proxy objects.

I wrote once custom XStream Converters to deal with this issue, as a part of a closed-source project unfortunately. xstream-for-beans deals with the very same problems, well worth a shot.

I've used Terracotta's Pojoizer utility successfully in the past, but I don't think it's maintained anymore.