JSON to Map 

Google-gson is a java library from Google for encoding and decoding JSON text. Get the latest binaries from http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/. The following example shows converting a JSON string to java map.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/google_gson/tests/Json2Map.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.google_gson.tests; import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.util.Map; import com.google.gson.Gson; import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken; public class Json2Map {   /**    * @param args    */   public static void main(String[] args) {     Gson gson = new Gson();     String jsonStr = "{\"firstName\":\"Sriram\"," +         "\"lastName\":\"Kasireddi\"," +         "\"age\":2," +         "\"hobby\":\"Singing\"," +         "\"dob\":\"May 6, 2010 12:00:00 AM\"}";          Type mapType = new TypeToken<Map<String, String>>() {}.getType();     Map map = gson.fromJson(jsonStr, mapType);     System.out.println(map);      } }

{firstName=Sriram, lastName=Kasireddi, age=2, hobby=Singing, dob=May 6, 2010 12:00:00 AM}