Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * The MIT License * * Copyright (C) 2007 Asterios Raptis * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to * the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE * LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION * OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION * WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ 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 { final InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes()); dec = new XMLDecoder(is); obj = (T) dec.readObject(); } finally { if (dec != null) { dec.close(); } } return obj; } }