Itemscript JSON library & RESTful in-memory database for Java & GWT-Java

[Jacob Davies]

Hi,

We have a new release of the Itemscript JSON library for standard Java
and GWT-Java, with a RESTful in-memory database.

The project page with a feature summary, downloads, documentation, and
examples is here:
http://code.google.com/p/itemscript/

The first problem it set out to solve was having a consistent JSON API
that can be used in both a standard Java environment, and in the GWT
Java environment, with its unique restrictions.

The second problem was to provide a consistent, simple Map-like
interface for loading and storing JSON resources identified by URIs.
So you can say things like:
String testString =
system().getString("http://itemscript.org/test.json#test-string");
or:
system().put("http://example.com/jsonService", jsonValue);

The third problem was to also provide a means of accessing a simple
in-memory database with a REST-style API using URI-type keys &
queries, so that relative URIs that would read or write to a remote
REST system can be switched to access the in-memory DB for testing &
development without a server. That also turned out to be useful for
some things that dependency injection or JNDI might otherwise do, for
managing configuration & user data, and for other lightweight,
transient data management.

--
Jacob Davies
ja...@itemscript.org