Hallo! I think xstream is very easy to use and it works fine for me.
E.g. use: XStream xs = new XStream(new DomDriver()); //Xpp instead dom would be faster ... OutputStream os; try { os = new FileOutputStream(xmlFile); xs.toXML(obj, os); } finally { os.close(); } For deep object dependency I run into memory problems, but for simple property based object and one or two relations it is very good and fast. Bye, Peter. ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de