2008-10-25T10:29:07Z Now if you dont know what JSON is, it is Javascript Object Notation. It is a way of exchanging Javascript Objects between a server and a client. Your current javascript supports parsing of JSON Strings to Javasript objects, but NOT all server side languages support JSON Script parsing by default. Scala has something, but still i find it a little bit weak, in the sense that you still do a lot of work to actually get you data back. The only JSON parser for java on www.json.org works, but for me, its too large a workhorse for such a small task as parsing a String into an object. On the JSON website, they have done a lot of work to describe a sort of BNF for what a JSON String looks like, so my solution is this, write a parser(I am comfortable with javacc) that parses JSON Strings and return simple everyday objects, not class wrappers and all that. A JSON string is either a List, A Map or any Value, so Mason is a parser that parses a JSON String and returns any of this value. Its so simple to use and straight forward. sample code?? I'll show you some FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(new File("/home/trinisoftinc/src/mason/lib/test.json")); Mason parser = new Mason(fis); parser.parse(); System.out.println("FINAL Map: " + parser.finalMap); System.out.println("FINAL Array: " + parser.finalArray); If the file test.json is a List, only finalArray is populated. finalArray is an ArrayList, finalMap is an Hashtable and finalValue is just an Object http://naijadukes.net/ GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) mason true trinisoftinc 1823 mainline trinisoftinc git://gitorious.org/mason/mainline.git