Jackson VS Gson

Compare Jackson vs Gson and see what are their differences.

Jackson

Core part of Jackson that defines Streaming API as well as basic shared abstractions (by FasterXML)

Gson

A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back (by google)
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Jackson Gson
4 27
2,231 22,945
0.7% 0.5%
9.5 9.1
5 days ago 3 days ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Jackson

Posts with mentions or reviews of Jackson. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-07.

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 2024-04-18.

What are some alternatives?

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

Moshi - A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.

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

Yasson - Eclipse Yasson project

Jackson JSON Processor - Main Portal page for the Jackson project

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

HikariJSON - High-performance JSON parser

kotlinx.serialization - Kotlin multiplatform / multi-format serialization

jsonschema2pojo - Generate Java types from JSON or JSON Schema and annotate those types for data-binding with Jackson, Gson, etc