JSON Object 

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange. Douglas Crockford has provided a reference implementation of JSON in Java at http://json.org/ useful for JSON serialization and deserialization. Click here to download the compiled library. The following example shows serializing a simple JSON object.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/json_java/tests/First.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.json_java.tests; import org.json.JSONException; import org.json.JSONObject; public class First {   /**    * @param args    * @throws JSONException     */   public static void main(String[] args) throws JSONException {     JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();     obj.put("name", "Sriram");     obj.put("age", 2);     obj.put("hobby", "painting");          System.out.println(obj.toString());     System.out.println(obj.toString(2)); //pretty print   } }

{"age":2,"name":"Sriram","hobby":"painting"}

{
  "age": 2,
  "name": "Sriram",
  "hobby": "painting"
}