<s>
JiBX	B-Language
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
Java	B-Language
framework	B-Architecture
for	O
XML	B-Language
data	I-Language
binding	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
solves	O
the	O
same	O
problem	O
as	O
tools	O
such	O
as	O
JAXB	B-Language
,	O
XMLBeans	B-Language
and	O
JDOM	B-Language
,	O
but	O
uses	O
an	O
alternate	O
approach	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
lets	O
developers	B-Application
work	O
with	O
data	O
from	O
XML	B-Protocol
documents	I-Protocol
using	O
arbitrarily	O
defined	O
Plain	B-Language
Old	I-Language
Java	I-Language
Objects	I-Language
(	O
POJOs	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
JiBX	B-Language
framework	B-Architecture
uses	O
a	O
binding	O
definition	O
to	O
tell	O
it	O
how	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
objects	O
map	O
to	O
the	O
XML	B-Protocol
and	O
vice	O
versa	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
designed	O
to	O
perform	O
the	O
translation	O
between	O
internal	O
data	B-General_Concept
structures	I-General_Concept
and	O
XML	B-Protocol
with	O
very	O
high	O
efficiency	O
,	O
and	O
has	O
been	O
claimed	O
to	O
be	O
the	O
fastest	O
XML	B-Language
data	I-Language
binding	I-Language
framework	B-Architecture
for	O
Java	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
JiBX	B-Language
differs	O
from	O
other	O
Java-XML	O
transformation	O
tools	O
such	O
as	O
JAXB	B-Language
,	O
XMLBeans	B-Language
and	O
JDOM	B-Language
in	O
that	O
it	O
is	O
not	O
based	O
on	O
code	O
generation	O
but	O
on	O
"	O
Mapped	O
Data	O
Binding	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
other	O
words	O
,	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
class	O
and	O
the	O
XML	B-Protocol
document	I-Protocol
being	O
mapped	O
are	O
both	O
treated	O
as	O
first	O
class	O
objects	O
and	O
one	O
is	O
not	O
generated	O
from	O
the	O
other	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
approach	O
decouples	O
the	O
domain	O
model	O
(	O
Java	B-Language
)	O
from	O
the	O
service	O
interface	O
(	O
input	O
and	O
output	O
XML	B-Protocol
documents	I-Protocol
)	O
in	O
a	O
way	O
that	O
is	O
consistent	O
with	O
the	O
goals	O
of	O
Service-Oriented	O
Architecture	O
(	O
SOA	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Like	O
traditional	O
Java-XML	O
tools	O
,	O
the	O
JiBX	B-Language
framework	B-Architecture
can	O
produce	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
Java	B-Language
classes	O
but	O
unlike	O
most	O
other	O
XML	B-Language
binding	I-Language
tools	O
for	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
JiBX	B-Language
does	O
not	O
require	O
this	O
step	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
generate	O
byte	O
code	O
enhancements	O
for	O
existing	O
classes	O
from	O
an	O
XML-Java	O
binding	O
declaration	O
.	O
</s>
