Java finally gets a built‑in JSON API, ditch the third‑party chaos
JEP 540 lands as an incubating Simple JSON API in the JDK, giving developers a minimal, standards‑compliant way to parse and generate RFC 8259 JSON without pulling in Jackson, Gson, or other libraries. It’s deliberately tiny—no data‑binding or streaming—so common tasks like extracting a value or computing an average become one‑liner code, and the platform itself can handle JSON out of the box.