JSON.simple is a simple Java toolkit for JSON.
You can use JSON.simple to encode or decode JSON text.

Features
* Full compliance with JSON specification (RFC4627) and reliable
* Provides multiple functionalities such as encode, decode/parse and
escape JSON text while keeping the library lightweight
* Flexible, simple and easy to use by reusing Map and List interfaces
* Supports streaming output of JSON text
* Stoppable SAX-like interface for streaming input of JSON text
* Heap based parser
* High performance.
* No dependency on external libraries
* Both of the source code and the binary are JDK1.2 compatible