Performance of XML data binding on Java Platform
One of possible future projects on my sizable mental list has been that of comparing performance of open source xml/POJO data binding toolkits. For some reason there are not many actual up-to-date good benchmarks out there. In fact, I can not name even one (for example, BindMark project which might do the trick seems to be dead, and test code I looked at looks.... well, rotten...). My own limited testing has led me to suspect that the fastest current choice might well be JAXB 2 (it seems to have very low overhead over basic Stax parsing), but it would be nice to prove that. Besides, it would be good to check out how JiBX would fare: it is supposed to be highly performant as well.
But today I found this article. Very cool, there are actually people doing serious benchmarking too, and in the very area I would be interested in testing. It also does further support my thinking about limited overhead of not only JAXB 2, but the cool StaxMate helper library.
