1. XML and Object Serialization

2. Structure of an XML Document Header Root Element Start Tags / End Tags Element Contents – Child Elements – Text – Both (mixed contents) Element Attributes Comments Entity References

3. Parsing / Searching XML Documents StAX Parser – XMLStreamReader XMLStreamReader – Example Example DOM Parser – Document Object Model (DOM) Document Object Model (DOM) – Example Example Searching DOM with XPath – Example Example

4. Creating XML Documents StAX – Example Example DOM – Example Example

5. Object Serialization Java binary serialization – Example Example XML – XStream Example XStream Example JSON – XStream Example XStream Example