Dear Commons-Folks, Yonik Seeley and I propose the creation of a new Sandbox component within Apache Commons. We would like to name it Commons JSON since it should deal with everything around JSON.
Yonik did already implement a JSON-Parser in Apache Labs name Noggit: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/labs/noggit/ I have implemented some other JSON-Lib at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/jjson We would like to join forces since my JSON lib isn't very good at parsing and Noggit lacks of some classes I created. Here is the original proposal from Noggit which also fits to JJSON: There is a need for an "industrial strength" JSON parser for Java with the following features: - Streaming API (StAX/pull-parser like) for both easy and efficient parsing - Conforms to the JSON standard: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt - Can adhere strictly to the standard (not a superset like existing parsers), preferably by default - Memory efficiency - incremental parsing (Reader-based) in order to handle huge messages - a single byte of state needed per nested object or array - does not read large objects (including primitives) completely into memory unless asked - can eliminate most copying, allowing the user to provide the output buffer for values - no built in size limits for primitives (less than 2GB) - can even handle keys of any size in a map - can handle primitives of *any* size (does not attempt to parse numerics into a certain language primitives unless asked) - Fast! I would like to add: - no dependencies! - Creates JSON Strings of Objects and vice versa - Annotations for creating objects from a JSON string. We believe that a JSON lib will become attention quickly and hope to get more developers attracted soon. Please let us know what you think about it! Best, Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
