> Hello,
>
> I have xml document with data to populate Hibernate (Java) objects. Is
> there good strategy to do this other than manually mapping data from xml
> tree to Java objects? Thanks.
XMLBeans (http://xmlbeans.apache.org/) will parse the XML and populate
POJOs with it, and then you can do whatever you want with the POJOs including
persisting them with Hibernate.
I've used XMLBeans before; it's pretty slick.

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