Context
There is now a decision from the ASF VP Legal to move the JSON library to "Category X" and therefore forbid its inclusion in released. It's a good opportunity for us to evaluate another, more mainstream, JSON library.
Affected modules
As of r1771785, the following modules declare a dependency on org.json or - in the case of commons.long - embed source code from it
- bundles/commons/json
- bundles/commons/log-webconsole
- bundles/commons/metrics
- launchpad/builder
- contrib/extensions/slf4j-mdc
- tooling/ide/impl-resource-test
Candidates
Apache Johnzon
Home page: http://johnzon.apache.org/
Cons:
- Is not OSGi ready, see dev@johnzon: Using johnzon-core in an OSGi container
GSON
Home page: https://github.com/google/gson
Jackson
Home page: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson
JSON-P RI
Home page: https://jsonp.java.net/
Cons:
- Roy mentioned: "Do not import any Glassfish code into Apache"
Open JSON
Actually a clean room implementation of the org.json API taken from the Android project.
Home page: https://github.com/tdunning/open-json
Cons:
- Is not OSGi ready