Proposed to Drop: JEP 198: Light-Weight JSON API

[Martin Grebac]

On 05.12.14 3:29, Alan Williamson wrote:
> Mark, i would love to understand your reasoning behind this move.
>
> Java has always suffered from poor core support for popular formats. 
> It took a long time before XML came to the core language and while 
> that happened there was no real great alternative.
Why does this need to be part of the language? As you mentioned - 
formats come and go, Java stays ;O). Have you 
consideredhttp://jsonp.java.net/ ?
  MartiNG

> JSON is a little different I grant you, considering how strong and 
> popular Jackson/GSON/Mongo 3rd party libraries are.
>
> However I believe JSON will be with the industry far longer than even 
> XML.   With its deep roots in JavaScript (which Java has entered that 
> game in a big way with Nashorn), JSON is the number one choice for web 
> services, data storage and generate NoSQL communications.
>
> By not having an official answer for this format, is going to hurt 
> Java in the long run.
>
> thanks
> a