Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright (C) 2007 Asterios Raptis * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.beans.XMLDecoder; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.InputStream; public class Main { /** * Creates from the given xml string an java object. * * @param <T> * the generic type * @param xmlString * the xml string to transform to an java object. * @return the xml string */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static <T> T toObjectWithXMLDecoder(final String xmlString) { XMLDecoder dec = null; T obj = null; try { InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes()); dec = new XMLDecoder(is); obj = (T) dec.readObject(); } finally { if (dec != null) { dec.close(); } } return obj; } }