not very familiar with jaxb, from what i was able to find you can convert into a string using
public String asString(JAXBContext pContext,
Object pObject)
throws
JAXBException {
java.io.StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
Marshaller marshaller = pContext.createMarshaller();
marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING, "UTF-8");
marshaller.marshal(pObject, sw);
return sw.toString();
}
ws.apache.org
but I’m not sure about a stirng object. still searching.
** EDIT
Marshalling a non-element
Another common use case is where you
have an object that doesn’t have
@XmlRootElement on it. JAXB allows you
to marshal it like this:marshaller.marshal( new JAXBElement(
new
QName(“”,”rootTag”),Point.class,new
Point(…)));This puts the element as the
root element, followed by the contents
of the object, then . You
can actually use it with a class that
has @XmlRootElement, and that simply
renames the root element name.At the first glance the second
Point.class parameter may look
redundant, but it’s actually necessary
to determine if the marshaller will
produce (infamous) @xsi:type. In this
example, both the class and the
instance are Point, so you won’t see
@xsi:type. But if they are different,
you’ll see it.This can be also used to marshal a
simple object, like String or an
integer.marshaller.marshal( new JAXBElement(
new
QName(“”,”rootTag”),String.class,”foo
bar”));But unfortunately it cannot be used to
marshal objects like List or Map, as
they aren’t handled as the first-class
citizen in the JAXB world.
found HERE