Create a Maven project in the Eclipse IDE for JSON processing. Select File | New | Other, and in the New gallery, select Maven | Maven Project, as shown here:

In the New Maven Project wizard, select Create a simple project and click on Next, as shown in the following screenshot:

Specify Group Id (jboss-json), Artifact Id (json), Version (1.0), Packaging (war), and Name (json) for New Maven Project and click on Finish, as shown here:

A new Maven project gets created as shown here:

Next, add JSPs to process JSON. Add createJson.jsp to create JSON and add parseJson.jsp to parse JSON. Select File | New | Other, and in the New gallery, select Web | JSP File and click on Next, as shown here:

Select the webapp folder, specify File name (createJson.jsp), and click on Finish, as shown here:

The createJson.jsp file gets added to the Maven project. Similarly, create parseJson.jsp. The directory structure of the Maven web application in the Eclipse IDE is shown in the following screenshot:

Add the jboss-json-api_1.0_spec, webapp-javaee7 and javax.ws.rs-api dependencies to pom.xml:

  <dependencies>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.jboss.spec.javax.json</groupId>
      <artifactId>jboss-json-api_1.0_spec</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.0.Final</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes</groupId>
      <artifactId>webapp-javaee7</artifactId>
      <version>1.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
      <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
      <version>2.0</version>
    </dependency>
    
  </dependencies>