Thanks for your response Meindert. I am trying to stay away from a external Java Object to XML as I would need to have the backing bean to create the mapping. If I could just use the tables directly from the database and convert them over to XML, I eliminate the need to have the backing beans and the result that I get back is directly in XML.
I am using Jasper Reports which can use an XML datasource. Currently I use the beancollection data source but I would like to keep the report implementation completely separate from the application beans as such. That way the reports could just run independently. I would like to use the ibatis functionality to create dynamic sql which is just beautiful without having to map the columns to a backing Java Bean. Thanks Utkarsh
