A JSON structure can contain scalar data types such as numbers, Booleans, or strings, and also structured data as arrays or objects. In a similar way to XML, JSON can also store hierarchical data.
The objects are represented as a collection of name_of_field:value_of_field pairs and you can have an array of these elements represented by a list, enclosed by [] characters.
The following example is an extract taken from the samples that come with PDI:
{ "store": { "book": [ { "category": "reference", "author": "Nigel Rees", "title": "Sayings of the Century", "price": 8.95 }, { "category": "fiction", "author": "Evelyn Waugh", "title": "Sword of Honour", "price": 12.99 }, { "category": "fiction", "author": "Herman ...
