Genson is a Java-to-JSON API, for serializing and deserializing Java to and from JSON.
Genson is a Java-to-JSON API, for serializing and deserializing Java to and from JSON.
The open source Genson project is hosted at https://github.com/owlike/genson.
Alternatives
Alternative Java-to-JSON binding solutions with similar APIs include Jackson, FastJSON, Google Gson, and svenson. Yet more Java-to-JSON libraries are listed at json.org.
Pros and Cons of the different APIs were and continue to be discussed in the https://stackoverflow.com/questions/338586/a-better-java-json-library post.
Performance
The latest performance benchmarks for Genson and other JSON serialization and deserialization solutions for Java are available at https://code.google.com/p/genson/wiki/Metrics2 and https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki.