Castor xml data binding

Question

Hi,
i try to use castor with jdev so i put castor-0.9.5.3.jar
in my libraries.
But when i try to use the unmarshaller i got this error :
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.exolab.castor.util.LocalConfiguration
     at org.exolab.castor.xml.Unmarshaller.initConfig(Unmarshaller.java:265)
     at org.exolab.castor.xml.Unmarshaller.<init>(Unmarshaller.java:221)
     at org.exolab.castor.xml.Unmarshaller.<init>(Unmarshaller.java:208)
     at org.exolab.castor.xml.Unmarshaller.unmarshal(Unmarshaller.java:684)
     at ReadPerson.main(ReadPerson.java:8)
here is my test code :
import java.io.FileReader;
import org.exolab.castor.xml.Unmarshaller;
public class ReadPerson {
     public static void main(String args[]) {
          try {
               Person person = (Person) Unmarshaller.unmarshal(Person.class,
                                                                           new FileReader("D:/Castor/person.xml"));
               System.out.println("Person Attributes");
               System.out.println("-----------------");
               System.out.println("Name: " + person.getName() );
               System.out.println("Address: " + person.getAddress() );
               System.out.println("SSN: " + person.getSsn() );
               System.out.println("Email: " + person.getEmail() );
               System.out.println("Home Phone: " + person.getHomePhone() );
               System.out.println("Work Phone: " + person.getWorkPhone() );
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.out.println( e );
Thanks !

Answer 1

FYI:
I tried Castor. In my opinion, there's a much better solution BC4J. BC4J lets you read and write your objects to XML, using readXML and writeXML. It seems more mature than Castor.
If you are just reading and writing your object or collection of objects and hierarchy to file, then you only use readXML and writeXML.
With BC4J, you model you objects in BC4J, then BC4J allows you to create a DTD for these objects. So if you have inbound or outbound XML that you need to transform from/to, you can then use this DTD and the DTD/XML Schema of the other format to write a xslt transformation.
Another benefit, you can pass object hierarchies across a web service using writeXML on the client side and then readXML to repopulate the object hierarchy on the server side of the web service.
Richard Catlin