In my never ending fight against teh wind-mills, I have produced two new open source projects that are somehow connected to each other.
First there is svenson which is a release of my own personal JSON generator / parser. The name is a result of a joke. When my boss asked me what was the unique characteristic of it, my first answer was: “It’s written by me!”. So the name comes from “Sven’s JSON”.
The answer was of course not totally serious. I wrote svenson because none of the JSON parsers out there seemed to have the right combination of being not too complicated yet flexible enough to work well in different scenarios. Being able to use a healthy mix of concrete typed java beans and dynamic map / list constructs seemed to be the best way to go, yet none of the JSON libraries out there seemed to go even near that direction.
See the svenson wiki at google code for an explanation of how svenson works.
The other project is called jcouchdb and is my attempt at writing a Java driver for couchdb. It is very much connected to svenson as it was the driving force for the parser part of svenson. it offers an API that lets you use all those nice svenson features with couchdb documents.
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update: link to couchdb