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

Another option is a Sax Parser. It is procedural - i.e. a visitor pattern - but if the xml is fairly lightweight, (and even medium weight) I have found it to be very useful for this.