Gson VS Jackson JSON Processor

Compare Gson vs Jackson JSON Processor and see what are their differences.

Gson

A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back (by google)

Jackson JSON Processor

Main Portal page for the Jackson project (by FasterXML)
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Gson Jackson JSON Processor
26 23
22,901 8,759
0.6% 1.0%
9.1 6.8
about 13 hours ago 2 days ago
Java
Apache License 2.0 -
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Gson

Posts with mentions or reviews of Gson. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.

Jackson JSON Processor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Jackson JSON Processor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Gson and Jackson JSON Processor you can also consider the following projects:

Moshi - A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.

Jackson - Core part of Jackson that defines Streaming API as well as basic shared abstractions

MapStruct - An annotation processor for generating type-safe bean mappers

jsoniter - jsoniter (json-iterator) is fast and flexible JSON parser available in Java and Go

Genson - Genson a fast & modular Java <> Json library

kotlinx.serialization - Kotlin multiplatform / multi-format serialization

Hibernate - Hibernate's core Object/Relational Mapping functionality

Yasson - Eclipse Yasson project

LoganSquare - Screaming fast JSON parsing and serialization library for Android.

JSON-io - Convert Java to JSON. Convert JSON to Java. Pretty print JSON. Java JSON serializer.

HikariJSON - High-performance JSON parser