Java and JSON Utah Java User Group Salt Lake City, Utah March 19 2009

1. Java and JSON
Sean Sullivan
Utah Java User Group
March 19, 2009

2. JavaScript Object Notation

3. JSON is a data interchange format

4. {
“name” : “Utah Java User Group”,
“tags” : [ “java”, “software”, “lolcats” ],
“location” :
{
“city” : “Salt Lake City”,
“state” : “Utah”
}
}

5. JSON
• based on a subset of the JavaScript
programming language
• text format
• language independent

6. How is JSON useful to Java developers?

8. RESTful web services

11. JSON libraries for Java
• www.json.org/java/
• xstream.codehaus.org
• code.google.com/p/google-gson
• json-lib.sourceforge.net
• jackson.codehaus.org

13. code.google.com/p/gsearch-java-client
code.google.com/p/gtranslate-java-client
code.google.com/p/friendfeed-java-api
code.google.com/p/jpoco

14. Native JSON
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/10/native-json-in-ie8.aspx
http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/02/12/native-json-in-firefox-31/

15. For more information
• http://www.json.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON

16. Thank you