JBind is a data binding framework linking Java and XML. It consists of
a schema compiler for generating Java sources and a runtime
environment. The runtime environment is used for unmarshalling
(reading) and marshalling (writing) XML documents, for validation, and
for accessing and manipulating XML data. In addition, JBind
introduces the concept of XML code that is the result of adding
behavior to XML data. XML code is the seamless integration of manually
implemented methods with sources generated by the schema compiler. XML
code offers great possibilities for application, framework, and
configuration developments. Instance documents are validated against
their schema when they are unmarshalled. Simple constraints
(constraints that consider only single values of attributes or simple
content of elements) are enforced during manipulation. Global
constraints (constraints that consider the occurrence of
attributes/elements or identity constraints) can be checked by an
explicit API call.
