JIBX -- Step by Step Tutorial

To install JiBX, just download the distribution zip file and unpack it. This will create a jibx directory that contains the distribution files, including a complete copy of this documentation. 

I installed it in C:\JIBX

Create a directory example23 in C:\jibx\tutorial\

Create a file Customer.java with following contents:

package example23;

public class Customer {

    public Person person;

    public String street;

    public String city;

    public String state;

    public Integer zip;

    public String phone;

}

Create a file Person.java with following contents:

package example23;

public class Person {

    public int customerNumber;

    public String firstName;

    public String lastName;

}

Create a file binding.xml with following contents:

Go to C:\jibx\tutorial from cmd prompt and execute following command:

javac example23/*.java

Now execute 

java -jar C:\jibx\lib\jibx-bind.jar example23\binding.xml

Now go to example23 directory and create CustomerManager.java wih contents

package example23;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import org.jibx.runtime.BindingDirectory;

import org.jibx.runtime.IBindingFactory;

import org.jibx.runtime.IMarshallingContext;

import org.jibx.runtime.IUnmarshallingContext;

import org.jibx.runtime.JiBXException;

public class CustomerManager {

public CustomerManager()

{

try {

IBindingFactory bfact = BindingDirectory.getFactory(Customer.class);

IUnmarshallingContext uctx = bfact.createUnmarshallingContext();

   

Object obj = uctx.unmarshalDocument

   (new FileInputStream("C:/jibx/tutorial/example23/customer.xml"), null);

Customer customer = (Customer)obj;

System.out.print(customer.street+", "+customer.city);

IMarshallingContext mctx = bfact.createMarshallingContext();

   mctx.setIndent(4);

   mctx.marshalDocument(obj, "UTF-8", null,

       new FileOutputStream("C:/jibx/tutorial/example23/customer2.xml"));

   

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} catch (JiBXException e) { 

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

new CustomerManager();

}

}

Create a customer.xml file with following contents:

Now execute CustomerManager.java and see JIBX in action :) 

Thanks note to techBlog.

But the process was not clear so i wrote this blog with things crystal clear.