What is best practice in converting XML to Java object?

Question

I need to convert XML data to Java objects. What would be best practice to convert this XML data to object?

Idea is to fetch data via a web service (it doesn\'t use WSDL

Answer 1

Have a look at XStream. It might not be the quickest, but it is one of the most user friendly and straightforward converters in Java, especially if your model is not complex.