Here you can find the source of unmarshal(String string, Class> clazz)
public static Object unmarshal(String string, Class<?> clazz) throws Exception
//package com.java2s; /*//ww w .j av a 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.StringReader; import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext; import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller; public class Main { public static Object unmarshal(String string, Class<?> clazz) throws Exception { JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(clazz); Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller(); return unmarshaller.unmarshal(new StringReader(string)); } }