What's the best way to persist data in a Java Desktop Application?

Question

I have a large tree of Java Objects in my Desktop Application and am trying to decide on the best way of persisting them as a file to the file system.

Some thoughts I\'v

Answer 1

XStream from codehaus.org

XML serialization/deserialization largely without coding. You can use annotations to tweak it. Working well in two projects where I work.

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