Saving Java Object Graphs as XML file

Question

What\'s the simplest-to-use techonlogy available to save an arbitrary Java object graph as an XML file (and to be able to rehydrate the objects later)?

Answer 1

I'd second (or third) XStream. It reads and writes XML without needing any special binding configuration or placing lots of extraneous syntax in the XML.

Answer 2

I put together a list with a lot of xml serialization libraries and its license

Answer 3

java.beans.XMLEncoder perhaps?