Here is a copy of my review
XML and Java: Developing Web Applications (2nd edition) that I did for the Association of Computing Machinery (
ACM) special interest group on software engineering (
SIGSOFT). This was several years ago but I think this is still a very good book on the topic. I thought the chapter on XML and database are worth the price of the book. See my review at
http://goo.gl/c8Hro