How to right click on a mac mouse

Initially I was puzzled on how do I right click on my new mac mouse. :-) If you have searched for this article, you also would have had the same question.

Navigate to System Preferences --> Mouse --> "Check" Seconday click --> Click on right side.

Once you are done with that you can right click on the mac mouse.

How to convert XML to Java object and vice versa in runtime?

Well the obvious choice would be to use JaxB, due to its familiarity. Let us see it with a simple example. JAXB is governed by the same team as Glassfish. JAXB comes by default with JDK1.6+. JAXB stands for Java Architecture for XML Binding.

XML has become a common form of data storage in many applications and for webservices. There are two common operations that are required while dealing with XML from Java. Read an xml file and convert it to a Java object, and write a Java object to an xml file.

JAXB does both the above said operations and those operations are called as

1. Marshalling – Convert a Java object into a XML.
2. Unmarshalling – Convert a XML into a Java Object.

Let us see this with an example,

Marshalling: Converting Java object to XML
Its a simple process, lets see this with a sample program
Output
While running the above example you will run into the following exception,

Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.bind.MarshalException
 - with linked exception:
[com.sun.istack.internal.SAXException2: unable to marshal type "com.ananth.samples.Employee" as an element because it is missing an @XmlRootElement annotation]
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.MarshallerImpl.write(MarshallerImpl.java:317)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.MarshallerImpl.marshal(MarshallerImpl.java:243)
at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractMarshallerImpl.marshal(AbstractMarshallerImpl.java:75)
at com.ananth.samples.Java2XMLExample.main(Java2XMLExample.java:20)
Caused by: com.sun.istack.internal.SAXException2: unable to marshal type "com.ananth.samples.Employee" as an element because it is missing an @XmlRootElement annotation
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.XMLSerializer.reportError(XMLSerializer.java:216)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.ClassBeanInfoImpl.serializeRoot(ClassBeanInfoImpl.java:286)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.XMLSerializer.childAsRoot(XMLSerializer.java:462)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.MarshallerImpl.write(MarshallerImpl.java:314)
... 3 more

To fix the above exception you have to add an @XmlRootElement annotation to your Employee Pojo.
Instead of System.out you can point to the File to which you want to write the output during jaxbMarshaller.marshal(employee, file);. Once make the change while rerunning the sample will give your the following output.

UnMarshalling: Converting XML to Java object
Its a simple process, lets see this with a sample program
Now, I had a question why do I should I have a @XmlRootElement annotation in my pojo.  Cant I do I deal with my existing POJOs of my application?
The answer is you cant do it with JAXB but there are other options like XStream. I have referred their two minutes tutorial and it really look me only 2 minutes to try it out.
Add the XStream maven dependency and after that it is as easy as calling toXML and fromXML methods of XStream object.

XML reader error: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]

100/100 times I know that this exception happens while there is a parse error in your xml and there is something wrong at the specified row and column.

Knowing the following exception is due to an XML parse error, recently I was puzzled for a while trying to look into the actual content of the file.  I couldn't see any closing tag error at the row and column mentioned.

After looking closer, I figured out my xml is used by multiple threads where a few threads were trying to write the XML and the other was trying to read the same file. And the exception was due to thread safety and the file was not fully written before the read. :-)

Message: XML document structures must start and end within the same entity.
com.sun.xml.internal.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderException: XML reader error: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[8829,4]
Message: XML document structures must start and end within the same entity.
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.wrapException(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:256)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.skipTags(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:146)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.skipElement(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:119)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.wsdl.parser.WSDLParserExtensionFacade.definitionsElements(WSDLParserExtensionFacade.java:129)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.wsdl.parser.RuntimeWSDLParser.parseWSDL(RuntimeWSDLParser.java:314)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.wsdl.parser.RuntimeWSDLParser.parse(RuntimeWSDLParser.java:135)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.WSServiceDelegate.parseWSDL(WSServiceDelegate.java:254)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.WSServiceDelegate.(WSServiceDelegate.java:217)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.WSServiceDelegate.(WSServiceDelegate.java:165)
at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.spi.ProviderImpl.createServiceDelegate(ProviderImpl.java:93)