XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to access the full power
of XML in a Java friendly way. It is an XML-Java binding tool.
The idea is that you can take advantage the richness and
features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped
as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and
typing constructs. XMLBeans uses XML Schema to compile Java
interfaces and classes that you can then use to access and
modify XML instance data. Using XMLBeans is similar to using
any other Java interface/class, you will see things like
getFoo or setFoo just as you would expect when working with
Java. While a major use of XMLBeans is to access your XML
instance data with strongly typed Java classes there are also
API's that allow you access to the full XML infoset (XMLBeans
keeps full XML Infoset fidelity) as well as to allow you to
reflect into the XML schema itself through an XML Schema
Object model.