Jackson Vs. Gson

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Suraj Chandran picture Suraj Chandran · Mar 4, 2010 · Viewed 170.9k times · Source

After searching through some existing libraries for JSON, I have finally ended up with these two:

  • Jackson
  • Google GSon

I am a bit partial towards GSON, but word on the net is that GSon suffers from a certain celestial performance issue (as of Sept 2009).

I am continuing my comparison; in the meantime, I'm looking for help to make up my mind.

Answer

mickthompson picture mickthompson · Mar 4, 2010

I did this research the last week and I ended up with the same 2 libraries. As I'm using Spring 3 (that adopts Jackson in its default Json view 'JacksonJsonView') it was more natural for me to do the same. The 2 lib are pretty much the same... at the end they simply map to a json file! :)

Anyway as you said Jackson has a + in performance and that's very important for me. The project is also quite active as you can see from their web page and that's a very good sign as well.

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