Java: Serialization/ Deserialization to/from XML instead of binary

Question

I have a complex set of data models that currently implement java.io.Serializable, and I have successfully serialized and deserialized them with ObjectOutputStream and ObjectInputStream.

However, the result are binary files (as expected), and I was wondering if Java supports serialization and deserialization in the same manner to a non-binary format, such as XML.

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I see that C# has this feature: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092020/xml-vs-binary-performance-for-serialization-deserialization.

Performance speed/ efficiency is not a consideration in this case.

Answer 1

Yes, Java has it and it's called XML Encoding. Check it out here!

The approach is quite similar to the normal serialization..

Answer 2

Further, I would suggest you to look at Simple and XStream frameworks. I found both good. You can choose to go with either one, or may be XmlEncoder as suggested by Jack.