Spring OXM - Update Project for Castor

We can use Castor instead of JAXB library to marshall/unmarshall an XML content. Castor is no more supported by Spring as it is not actively maintained for long time. This tutorial is written using older version of spring.

Update the content of pom.xml to have xstream dependencies as shown below −

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.tutorialspoint</groupId>
   <artifactId>springoxm</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>Spring OXM</name>
   <description>Spring OXM Project</description>
   <properties>
      <org.springframework.version>4.3.7.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
      <org.hibernate.version>5.2.9.Final</org.hibernate.version>
      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      <java.version>1.8</java.version>    
   </properties> 	
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
         <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
         <scope>compile</scope>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
         <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
         <scope>compile</scope>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.castor</groupId>
         <artifactId>castor-core</artifactId>
         <version>1.4.1</version>
      </dependency>   
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.castor</groupId>
         <artifactId>castor-xml</artifactId>
         <version>1.4.1</version>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
      <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.1</version>
            <configuration>
               <source>${java.version}</source>
               <target>${java.version}</target>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>
</project>

Add a mapping xml required for castor mapping to map Student class as mappings.xml under src → main → resources folder as shown below.

mappings.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>  
<!DOCTYPE mapping PUBLIC "-//EXOLAB/Castor Mapping DTD Version 1.0//EN" "http://castor.org/mapping.dtd">  
<mapping>  
   <class name="com.tutorialspoint.oxm.model.Student" auto-complete="true" >  
      <map-to xml="Student"/>  
      <field name="id" type="integer">  
         <bind-xml name="id" node="attribute"></bind-xml>  
      </field>  
      <field name="name">  
         <bind-xml name="name"></bind-xml>  
      </field>  
      <field name="age">  
         <bind-xml name="age" type="int"></bind-xml>  
      </field>          
   </class>      
</mapping>

Update applicationcontext.xml in src → main → resources with the following content to use CastorMarshaller. CastorMarshaller object can be used for both marshalling and unmarshalling.

applicationcontext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"  
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
   xmlns:oxm="http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm"  
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans   
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd   
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm  
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm-3.0.xsd">  

   <bean id="castorMarshaller" class="org.springframework.oxm.castor.CastorMarshaller">  
      <property name="targetClass" value="com.tutorialspoint.oxm.model.Student"></property>  
      <property name="mappingLocation" value="mappings.xml"></property>  
   </bean>  
</beans>