Marshal model in different ways using JAXB

Question

Sure, this question was asked before anywhere but didn't find a appropriate solution for it:

Is there a possibility to marshal a model with JAXB to different XMLs or in different ways. I still serialize this model to JSON with Jackson where I can use @JsonView or JsonMixins to serialize it to different json layouts.

Having this model:

public class Customer {
    public int getId() { return id; }
    public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; }
    private int id;

    public String getLastName() { return lastName; }
    public void setLastName(String lastName) { this.lastName = lastName; }
    private String lastName;

    public String getFirstName() { return firstName; }
    public void setFirstName(String firstName) { this.firstName = firstName; }
    private String firstName;
}

should be marshalled as:

<customer>
    <lastName>name</lastName>
<customer>

or

<customer>
    <id>name</id>
    <lastName>name</lastName>
    <firstName>firstname</firstName>
<customer>

I found this and this posting on stackoverflow but the suggestion is to use EclipseLink JAXB. But unfortunately Hibernate as a persistence provider is still in use. EclipseLink and Hibernate (both are O/R mapper) won't really work together - isn't it?

Is there any possibilty to marshal a model to different xml using JAXB?

Answer 1

I found this and this posting on stackoverflow but the suggestion is to use EclipseLink JAXB. But unfortunately Hibernate as a persistence provider is still in use. EclipseLink and Hibernate (both are O/R mapper) won't really work together - isn't it?

EclipseLink provides JPA (O/R) and MOXy (O/X (JAXB) & O/J). You can use the EclipseLink O/X with Hibernate O/R without issue.

With EclipseLink MOXy you can use the Object Graph feature to output subsets of your model to XML or JSON.

• http://blog.bdoughan.com/2013/03/moxys-object-graphs-inputoutput-partial.html
• http://blog.bdoughan.com/2013/03/moxys-object-graphs-partial-models-on.html