The JAXB binding framework provides methods for unmarshalling XML instance documents into Java content trees — a hierarchy of Java data objects that represent the source XML data — and for ...

The Java Architecture for XML Binding provides a powerful and practical way of working with XML content from within Java applications. The newly released JAXB 2.0 offers many new features ...

It is probably safe to assume that the majority of people who use JAXB today use the xjc compiler to create Java classes from XML Schema files rather than from Document Type Definition ( DTD ) files.