Simple class to xml

Employee.java POJO Class

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlRootElement
public class Employee {

	String name, designation;
	int employeeCode;
	float salary;
	
	public Employee(){
		
	}
	
	public Employee(String name, String designation, int employeeCode, float salary){
		super();
		this.name=name;
		this.designation=designation;
		this.employeeCode=employeeCode;
		this.salary=salary;
	}
	
	@XmlElement  
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	
	@XmlElement  
	public String getDesignation() {
		return designation;
	}
	public void setDesignation(String designation) {
		this.designation = designation;
	}
	
	@XmlAttribute
	public int getEmployeeCode() {
		return employeeCode;
	}
	public void setEmployeeCode(int employeeCode) {
		this.employeeCode = employeeCode;
	}
	
	@XmlElement  
	public float getSalary() {
		return salary;
	}
	public void setSalary(float salary) {
		this.salary = salary;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Employee [name=" + name + ", designation=" + designation + ", employeeCode=" + employeeCode
				+ ", salary=" + salary + "]";
	}
	

}

TransformObjectToXml.java

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;

public class TransformObjectToXml {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException, FileNotFoundException {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Employee.class);
		
		Marshaller marshellObject = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
		
		marshellObject.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
		
		System.out.println("creating object for person david");
		Employee david = new Employee("David Sherrif","DBA",11,50000);
		
		System.out.println("David info ::"+david);
		
		System.out.println("Writing to xml  file David information");
		marshellObject.marshal(david, new FileOutputStream("EmployeeFile.xml"));
		
	}

}

Output : EmployeeFile.xml generated

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 <employee employeeCode="11">
     <designation>DBA</designation>
     <name>David Sherrif</name> 
    <salary>50000.0</salary>
 </employee>

TransformXmlToObject.java

import java.io.File;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;

public class TransformXmlToObject {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		
		System.out.println("creating JAXBContext ");
		File employeeFile = new File("EmployeeFile.xml");
		JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Employee.class);
		
		System.out.println("creating JAXB unmarshel object");
		Unmarshaller jaxbUnmarshellObject = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
		
		System.out.println("performing unmarshel of XML employee file to read employee");
		Employee emp1 = (Employee)jaxbUnmarshellObject.unmarshal(employeeFile);
		System.out.println("Employee File info ::"+emp1);
		
		
		
	}

}

Output