Here comes the Sun

Simple-xml is an object-xml serialization and de-serialization framework. It’s featured by annotation-driven, light-weight and self-contained. In simple-xml, pojos that will be serialized are annotated with @Root, @Element, @Attribute or @Text. The problem is, when handling with inheritance, if the actual type is different from declared type, simple-xml will add a “class” attribute for de-serialization consideration. [...]