Tutorial: Play Framework, JPA, JSON, jQuery, & Heroku | James Ward

Tutorial: Play Framework, JPA, JSON, jQuery, & Heroku

If you are a Java developer then you really need to give Play Framework a try. It is really refreshing to take a few minutes, step out of the legacy-feeling world of traditional Java web app development and into something modern and fun. I want to walk you through a very simple tutorial where we will build a web application with Play Framework. The application will use JPA for persistence and expose access to the data through a JSON over HTTP interface. The client-side of the application will be built with jQuery. Lets get started.

Introduction to JSON (Javascript Object Notation) | Tech Samosa

Introduction to JSON (Javascript Object Notation) | Tech Samosa

JSON (Javascript Object Notation) is a light weight data interchange format. JSON is a subset of the literal object notation in JavaScript. It can be compared to XML but parsing of JSON is very much easier than XML data. It is a text format of data and is programming language independent. In fact it very much looks like unnamed array.