Lately we worked on integrating PHP with Java JBoss servers. Against all the webservice hype my customer decided to create a servlet which takes a previously defined JSON string as input parameter and returns a JSON string after processing. PHP can work very well with JSON, so everything is smooth.

We used the JSON-Lib:  json-lib.sourceforge.net/

and of course, we had some problems with that early version after a while. Digging into the code we recognized very quickly that this lib really wasn’t coded very well. Highly complex and totally over engineered. However, we patched this lib and kept on going.

But at night I thought about having the same basic features without dependencies and in a readable manner. This was the birth of JJSon. Allready said, goal is to implement a lib with NO dependencies, easy to bugfix and with less classes. No bullshitting round a simple format!

However, even my words are harsh, we were very glad to have Json-Lib since we hadn’t the time to code it ourselves. So, thank you to the guys who spent many hours to prepare this jar, even when I am not totally happy with it!