Using JSR 353 – Java API for processing JSON
There are many Java-based frameworks available today for processing JSON. In this section, we will learn the APIs available in the Java EE platform for processing JSON. Java EE 7 has standardized the JSON processing APIs with Java Specification Request (JSR), that is, JSR 353 – Java API for JSON Processing. This JSR offers portable APIs to parse, generate, transform, and query the JSON data. The JSR 353 APIs can be classified into two categories on the basis of the processing model followed by the APIs:
- Object model API
- Streaming model API
We had a generic discussion on these two processing models in the previous section, Processing JSON data. In this section, we will see how these processing models are implemented in JSR 353.
Processing JSON with JSR 353 object model APIs
This category of APIs generates an in-memory tree model for JSON data and then starts processing it as instructed by the client. This is conceptually similar to the Document Object...