Use XStream to Serialize Java Objects Into XML

IBM Developerworks: "Using XStream, you can serialize most Java objects without any mapping. Object names become element names in the XML produced, and the strings within classes form the element content of the XML. The classes that you serialize with XStream don't need to implement the Serializable interface. XStream is a serialization tool and not a data binding tool, which means that it doesn't perform class generation from an XML or XML Schema Definition (XSD) file."