JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)
The Java Development Kit (JDK) is introducing a simple, standard API for parsing and generating JSON documents to reduce reliance on external libraries. This incubating feature aims to provide a lightweight, readable, and conformant tool for basic JSON tasks.
Why it matters
Standardizing JSON handling within the JDK simplifies development for Java programmers and reduces dependency management overhead.
Define a simple, standard API for parsing and generating JSON documents so that doing so does not require an external library. Enable many JSON processing tasks to be accomplished with little coding. This is an incubating API .
This JEP supersedes JEP 198 , Light-Weight JSON API , which was written in 2014. Circumstances have changed in the intervening years, so here we take a different approach.
Keep the API small, simple, and easy to learn. Provide only those data types and operations required for strict conformance to RFC 8259, in order to facilitate machine-to-machine communication. Avoid features such as multiple parsing configurations, syntax extensions, data binding, and streaming.
Ensure that code that navigates and extracts data from JSON documents with a known structure is simple and readable. Because JSON documents do not have schemas, such code serves as a de facto schema and should be readable as such.
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