Extracting readable XML of JAXBElement

Utils.java

/**
 * Extract the XML content, human friendly, of the <b>JAXBElement</b> object.
 * 
 * @param object Object JAXBElement
 * @return XML content
 * @throws Exception Will be thrown always when object is not a valid JAXB instance.
 */
public static String extractXMLFromJAXBObject(Object object) throws Exception
{
  try
  {
    JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(object.getClass());
    Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller();
    marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);
    ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    marshaller.marshal(object, output);

    return output.toString();
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
    throw new Exception("An error happened while extracting XML content of " + object + ": " + ex.getMessage(), ex);
  }
}