One of the most essential elements in today’s application development is the use of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). It is a lightweight yet powerful tool used for preparing the most efficient Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
JSON brings the ability to create several events, object trees, and information generators. It is a tool that allows you to create the best active APIs and take advantage of the information that is actively present on the internet, since it is capable of receiving an input stream of different data types and then parsing and creating the required value trees.
In this chapter, we will shed light on the JSON generation controls and discuss how JSON allows Java community members to create RESTful APIs. We will present various elements of the javax.json package, which include creating events, input and output...