how to move from java object serialization to xml serialization?

[Dimitri Ognibene]

I've some classes that contains matematical models, I was used to save
and load them thorogh java serialization, now I wish to switch to xml..
can anyone help?

 

[Andrew Thompson]

I've some classes that contains matematical models, I was used to save
and load them thorogh java serialization, now I wish to switch to xml..
can anyone help?

Probably not until you identify a problem.
Did you have a specific question?

Andrew T.

 

[Jean-Francois Briere]

You could use the XMLEncoder XMLDecoder classes but it probably won't
fit your needs.
A simple Google with keywords "java xml serialization" gives XSteam at
the first result.
It's good. I've tried it in the past. There are others available
though.

Regards

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

I've some classes that contains matematical models, I was used to save
and load them thorogh java serialization, now I wish to switch to xml..

JAXB maybe ?

Arne

 

[Dimitri Ognibene]

there is not a standard way to do this work?

Another think, I want to do this change because I could need to
change my java code, but still need the data I've obtained in an older
version...
so.. sometime the data are exactly the same, some time there are some
new fields,
which i would set by hand to default values in the serialized version..
but I can't even read
the file in the first scenarion with standard serialization, the second
scenarion is quite sci-fi
So I think xml could feet my needs...
but I've seen many way and many libraries to do this in java..
I'd like to do the change with less effort possible.
Thank you

ps.
I've seen http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence4/,
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/beans/XMLEncoder.html and
some other sun reference.. just in this moment.. what are the pros and
cons of this class?