Generation of Java Beans to Access XML Data

This paper describes a technique to automatically generate a set of Java Beans accessing data encoded according to some XML document type definition. This technique does not support any XML based mark-up, but can be applied to a sufficiently large class of XML compliant mark-up language to make the approach of practical interest. The generated Java Beans can be used as data accessors to deliver dynamic or static content for mark-up pages used in an internet style application. We briefly describe the technology environment into which our solution is embedded and provide an in-depth treatment of the mapping from XML data onto a flattened relational data model, including an example to illustrate our approach.