Serializing an Immutable Bean Property to XML
import java.beans.DefaultPersistenceDelegate; import java.beans.XMLEncoder; import java.io.BufferedOutputStream; import java.io.FileOutputStream; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { MyClass o = new MyClass(123); XMLEncoder encoder = new XMLEncoder(new BufferedOutputStream( new FileOutputStream("outfilename.xml"))); String[] propertyNames = new String[] { "prop" }; encoder.setPersistenceDelegate(MyClass.class, new DefaultPersistenceDelegate(propertyNames)); encoder.writeObject(o); encoder.close(); } } class MyClass { int prop; public MyClass(int prop) { this.prop = prop; } public int getProp() { return prop; } }