The JavaScript Object
Notation (JSON4J) library is an implementation of a set of JavaScript Object Notation
(JSON) handling classes for use within Java™ environments.
The JSON4J library provides the following functions:
- A simple Java model for
constructing and manipulating data to be rendered as the JSON implementation.
- A fast transform for XML to JSON conversion, for situations where
conversion from an XML reply from a web service into a JSON structure
is wanted for easy use in Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) applications.
The advantage of this is that AJAX-patterned applications can handle
JSON formatted data without having to rely on ActiveX objects in Microsoft Internet Explorer
XML transformations and other platform-specific XML parsers. In addition,
JSON-formatted data tends to be more compact and efficient to transfer.
- A JSON string and stream parser that can generate the corresponding
JSONObject, which represents that JSON structure in Java. You can then change that JSONObject and
serialize the changes back to the JSON implementation.
For more information about JSON, see www.json.org.
