Welcome to Json-lib

JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps, collections, java arrays to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans.
It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in https://www.json.org/java.

The following tables sumarizes the types conversion between java and javascript:

JSON		Java
string	<=>	java.lang.String, java.lang.Character, char
number	<=>	java.lang.Number, byte, short, int, long, float, double
true\|false	<=>	java.lang.Boolean, boolean
null	<=>	null
array	<=>	net.sf.json.JSONArray (object, string, number, boolean)
object	<=>	net.sf.json.JSONObject

This library strictly follows the JSON specification and only supports the official (please refer to https://www.json.org) JSON data types.

Json-lib comes in two flavors, depending on the jdk compatibility. json-lib-x.x-jdk13 is compatible with JDK 1.3.1 and upwards. json-lib-x.x-jdk15 is compatible with JDK 1.5, includes support for Enums in JSONArray and JSONObject. Please reffer to the appropriate javadoc links available in the project menu.

Json-lib requires (at least) the following dependencies in your classpath:

jakarta commons-beanutils 1.8.0
ezmorph 1.0.6

What is JSON ?

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others.
These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language.