Introduction

In CXF, data binding components are responsible for mapping between XML 'on the wire' and Java objects. Each data binding implements a particular discipline for mapping, such as JAXB or XML Beans.

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All data bindings provide the live data mapping. The other two facilities are optional.

Data Mapping

Data bindings provide data mapping by implementing the org.apache.cxf.databinding.DataBinding interface. The AbstractDataBinding class in the same package provides some common functionality.

To add a data binding, you will need to create a class that implements DataBinding, perhaps by extending AbstractDataBinding.

Formats

Each data binding supports one or more formats for the data in transit. A 'format' is a Java representation of XML. CXF works, primarily, with STaX. Thus, all data bindings must support XMLStreamReader and XMLStreamWriter as formats.