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

For a JMS project we were marshalling and unmarshalling (going from java to xml and xml to java) XML embedded in TextMessages (string property). We tried JAXB, Jibx, and XMLBeans. We found that XMLBeans worked best for us. Fast, easily configurable, good documentation, and easy Maven integration.