THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

JAXB

JAXB is the official API for XML binding from Sun:

supports binding of DTD and XML Schema
allows customization of the binding
standardizes the interfaces for the generated classes
allows different JAXB implementations to use different implementations of these interfaces
supports validation of unmarshalled documents
supports validation of content trees
is unrelated to DOM and JDOM

Other XML data binding frameworks:

A comparison is available.