Hi!

Is there a direct way to convert a given Object (for which a mapping file exists, of course) into an XML document, without the need to store the Object into the DB first?
I've found no example for this use-case so far.

Thanks.
Martin

There are a few libs around to convert Java Objects to XML. In many situations I find xstream to be a very helpful library.

Thank you for your answer. Yes I know xstreams or e.g. Castor / Jaxb etc.

But because I'm already using Hibernate for the OR-mapping and DB-Data-to-XML mapping, I would not prefer to use another lib for the Object-to-XML mapping.
There are situations where my application needs to send an object (serialized as XML-document) over network, without storing it to DB first.
Is there any chance to do this with hibernate?

Thanks.