There are many Java-based frameworks available today for processing JSON. In this section, we will learn the APIs available in the Java EE platform for processing JSON. Java EE 7 has standardized the JSON processing APIs with Java Specification Request (JSR), that is, JSR 353 – Java API for JSON Processing. This JSR offers portable APIs to parse, generate, transform, and query the JSON data. The JSR 353 APIs can be classified into two categories on the basis of the processing model followed by the APIs:

• Object model API
• Streaming model API

We had a generic discussion on these two processing models in the previous section, Processing JSON data. In this section, we will see how these processing models are implemented in JSR 353.