Here you can find the source of marshal(Object object)
public static String marshal(Object object) throws Exception
//package com.java2s; /*// w w w . j a va 2 s.c o m * Copyright (c) 2004-2011 Marco Maccaferri and others. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * Marco Maccaferri - initial API and implementation */ import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext; import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller; public class Main { public static String marshal(Object object) throws Exception { StringWriter string = new StringWriter(); JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext .newInstance(object.getClass()); Marshaller marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller(); marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.FALSE); marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING, "UTF-8"); //$NON-NLS-1$ marshaller.marshal(object, string); return string.toString(); } }