Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright 2012 Megam Systems? This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext; import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException; import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource; public class Main { public static <T extends Object> T unmarshalFromString(Class clz, String input) throws JAXBException { JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(clz); Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller(); T unobj = (T) unmarshaller.unmarshal(new StreamSource(new StringReader(input.toString()))); return unobj; } }