XML Import/Export - XMLDatabinder

coday · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:43 pm **Posts:** 2

The latest hibernate documentaion indicates that there are facilities for XML/POJO importing/exporting. We noticed that the XMLDatabinder (found in Hibernate 2 and HIbernate 3 beta releases) has been removed from the HIbernate3 rc1. We are looking to import data from an XML file and persist it to our db through hibernate, as well as dumping our data out to xml. Very similar to the problem described here

http://www.jroller.com/comments/ara_e/W ... o_from_xml

which was the birth of ReverseXMLDatabinder

Are there plans to re join this or similar functionality in a future release? If not what strategy would you suggest in the abscence of XMLDatabinder/ReverseXMLDatabinder? Thanks.

anthony · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:40 am

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... ingle/#xml

Quote:

Note that this is an experimental feature in Hibernate 3.0 and is under extremely active development.

coday · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:43 pm **Posts:** 2

Thank you for the reply, I read the XML section of the new document before posting and understand how to load from the DB and dump it out in the XML format as defined for a particular entity. What I am missing is how would I load an initial data set from an XML document and persist it to the DB in a generic way. Am I missing something here or is this something I would have to custom build? Thanks again.