Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) allows Java developers to edit and create XML using familiar Java objects. JAXB is particularly useful when the specification is complex and changing. In such a case, regularly changing the XML Schema definitions to keep them synchronised with the Java definitions can be time consuming and error prone. Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ... In strictly mathematical branches of computer science the term object is used in a purely mathematical sense to refer to any thing. While this interpretation is useful in the discussion of abstract theory, it is not concrete enough to serve as a primitive datatype in the discussion of more concrete... XML Schema, published as a W3C Recommendation in May 2001, is one of several XML schema languages. ...

JAXB is one of the components provided in the Java Web Services Development Pack (JWSDP). JAXB 1.0 was developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 31. As of 2006, JAXB 2.0 is being developed under JSR 222. The Java Web Services Development Pack (JWSDP) is a free software development kit (SDK) for developing Web Services, web applications and Java applications with the newest technologies for Java. ... The Java Community Process or JCP, established in 1995, is a formalized process which allows interested parties to be involved in the definition of future versions and features of the Java platform. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• XML data binding
• JaxMe – Open source implementation of JAXB under the Apache Software Foundation
• XMLBeans – JAXB implementation from BEA Systems

XML data binding refers to the process of representing the information in an XML document as an object in computer memory. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)3 in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a company that specializes in application infrastructure software. ...

External links

• JAXB home page
• JAXB Reference Implementation home page
• JSR 222 (JAXB 2.0)
• JSR 31 (JAXB 1.0)