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JSON Processing and JSON Binding

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a human-readable data interchange format. As its name implies, JSON is derived from JavaScript. Jakarta EE provides support for two different APIs for JSON manipulation, namely Jakarta JSON Processing, which is a lower-level API allowing fine-grained control, and Jakarta JSON Binding, which is a higher-level API that allows us to easily populate Java objects from JSON data, as well as quickly generate JSON-formatted data from Java objects. In this chapter, we will cover both JSON Processing and JSON Binding.

JSON Processing includes two APIs for processing JSON: the Model API and the Streaming API. Both of these APIs will be covered in this chapter. JSON Binding transparently ...

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