How to convert JSON String to Java object - Jackson Example

JSON stands for JavaScript object notation, is a lightweight text or string representation of an object and quickly becoming a popular data exchange format. Though it's pretty early to say that JSON is going to replace XML as popular data interchange format, It is certainly providing an alternative. JSON represent data in two format either an object or an array. JSON object is an unordered collection of key and value, similar to String representation of hash table. On the other hand, JSON Array is an ordered collection of values. The main difference between  JSON Object and  JSON array is there representation. JSON object is started with left brace { and ends with right brace } and key values are separated using a colon (:). On the other hand, JSON Array starts with left bracket [ and ends with right bracket ] and each value is separated by comma. By looking at structure, You can write  your JSON parser to parse JSON object or array to Java object, but you don't need to. 

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