JSR-353, the Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P), has reached final approval ballot this month. JSON-P (similar to JAXP) consists of a Streaming API (similar to StAX) and an Object Model API ...

Gson is what is going to convert the JSON data into a Java object for us (a process called deserialization). We could do this manually, but using tools like this makes life much easier!

Just as java.lang,Object ‘s toString method provides a convenient mechanism for codifying, albeit sometimes cryptically, an object, I find it helpful to make domain objects in a web application ...