Java XML and JSON: Document Processing for Java SE

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Jeff FriesenJava XML and JSONhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4330-5_7

7. Introducing JSON

Jeff Friesen¹ 

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Dauphin, MB, Canada

 

Many applications communicate by exchanging JSON objects instead of XML documents. Chapter 7 introduces JSON, tours its syntax, demonstrates JSON in a JavaScript context, and shows how to validate JSON objects in the context of JSON Schema.

What Is JSON?

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a language-independent data format that expresses JSON objects as human-readable lists of properties (name/value pairs). Although derived from a nonstrict subset of JavaScript, code to parse JSON objects into equivalent language-dependent objects is available in many programming languages.

Note

JSON allows the Unicode ...