JSON at Work: Overview and Ecosystem

JSON is more than just a simple replacement for XML when you make an AJAX call. JSON is becoming the backbone of any serious data interchange over the Internet. All modern languages have excellent JSON API support. There are emerging standards and best practices that can be used to harness the energy and enthusiasm around JSON to build truly elegant, useful, and efficient applications. You’re already using JSON, and you may be thinking:

  • What else is there to talk about?
  • What additional tools and standards are available, and why do they matter?
  • Everything is great, so how would these tools and standards help?*
  • What is JSON Schema and when/how do I use it?

In this presentation, we’ll cover:

JSON Overview

  • JSON Beginnings - language review, best practices
  • JSON Tooling
  • JSON in Java

The JSON Ecosystem

  • Structuring JSON (JSON Schema)
  • RESTing with JSON
    Modeling - JSONPad
    Browser Plugins
    ** Prototyping and testing – JSON Generator, Firebase
  • Text Search with JSON
  • Transforming JSON

Attendees will learn the basics of JSON and how to leverage this exciting technology in new ways to enhance their RESTful architecture and development efforts.


Tom Marrs

About Tom Marrs

Tom Marrs is a Technical Architect at Perficient, where he specializes in RESTful Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). He designs and implements mission-critical web and business applications using the latest SOA, Ruby on Rails, JSON, HTML5, JavaScript, Java/EE, and Open Source technologies.

Tom is the author of the JSON Refcard for DZone, and the upcoming book, JSON at Work for O’Reilly. Tom is also a speaker at the Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) conference.

An active participant in the local technical community, Tom helps emcee at the HTML5 Denver User Group, helped found the Denver Open Source User Group (DOSUG), has served as President of the Denver Java Users Group (DJUG), and speaks at other local user groups.

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