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We saw how to parse JSON using GSON API, in this post we would take a look at how the same GSON API can be used to create JSON from the Java objects. Please read this to get an idea of what GSON is. Diving right into the topic of this example, we would make use [...]

In our previous post we looked at different features added as part of Project Coin, in this post we will look at another language construct added as part of Java 7 and Project Coin in particular. It is the try-with-resource construct also called as Automatic Resource Management. Before getting into the details of the construct, [...]

We have seen here on how to parse JSON in Java using Gson and here on how to parse JSON in Groovy. I also touched upon in brief about Groovy here. The beauty of these JVM languages is that one can invoke these APIs from Java, the only requirement is that you need to have [...]

As part of the Project Coin, there were quite a few language enhancements were added to the Language. The last time Java language changed was in the Java 5 release when Generics were added. The changes in introduced in the Java 7 were welcomed by java community around the world. This was seen as a stepping [...]

In our previous post, we wrote about parsing JSON using Java and GSON library. Moving further, in this article we will look at how to use classes in java.net package to invoke a RESTful Web Service and then parse the JSON response using GSON library. For this we make use of the Twitter REST API [...]

In our previous post we saw how we used Gson API to parse the Json using Java. Not spending too much time on the introduction, I would want to straight away dive into the same parsing which can be done using Groovy language. Groovy is a scripting language which runs on the JVM. It can [...]

In my previous post here, I gave a brief overview of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). In this post I would go a bit further and show how one can parse the JSON documents into Java objects using the GSON library. The JSON data for this tutorial was obtained from: “https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=” where screen_name was TwitterAPI and [...]