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tmcneal edited this page Sep 13, 2010 · 2 revisions

JSON-MVC is a very simple Java framework for web applications which accepts RESTful requests and returns JSON responses. If you’re looking to quickly bring online a web service which returns JSON data, then this framework is for you.

There are many MVC (model-view-controller) web frameworks for Java, however these frameworks are designed for user-facing websites, and as such assume that a presentation layer such as JSP or JSF will be needed to generated HTML markup. This presentation layer is unneccessary for services returning only JSON data. There are also several options available for developers looking to build and expose web services, however these approaches tend to be rather heavy-weight and unintuitive.

The JSON-MVC framework is intended to provide a very simple and powerful way of exposing JSON services:

- Each service is defined as an Action. An action is registered to a certain URL path ( ‘/events/view’) and HTTP method ( ‘GET’, ‘POST’, etc).
- TODO

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