Parsing JSON in Java

Lets assume you have a class Person with just a name. private class Person { public String name; public Person(String name) { this.name = name; } } Google GSON (Maven) One great is JSON serialisation / de-serialisation of objects. Gson g = new Gson(); Person person = g.fromJson("{\"name\": \"John\"}", Person.class); System.out.println(person.name); //John System.out.println(g.toJson(person)); // {"name":"John"} Update If you want to get a single attribute out you can do it easily with the Google library as well: JsonObject jsonObject = new JsonParser().parse("{\"name\": \"John\"}").getAsJsonObject(); System.out.println(jsonObject.get("name").getAsString()); //John Org.JSON (Maven) If you don't need object de-serialisation but to simply get an attribute, you can try org.json (or look GSON example above!) JSONObject obj = new JSONObject("{\"name\": \"John\"}"); System.out.println(obj.getString("name")); //John Jackson (Maven) ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); Person user = mapper.readValue("{\"name\": \"John\"}", Person.class); System.out.println(user.name); //John