In this section, you will learn about configuring the GSON library in Eclipse IDE for a simple Java project and a Maven type project.
The GSON library project is an open source project and is hosted by Google. This project is free for download and its use is based on Apache License 2.0. The current release of this library is 2.2.2.
The base URL of this library is http://code.google.com/p/google-gson. Navigate to the download section of this page and download the zipped version (google-gson-2.2.2-release.zip
). To verify the correct download of this ZIP file, you can compare the checksum that is provided at the base site of GSON.
You can see the following five files when you unzip the downloaded file. Two of them are text files and the other three are JAR files:
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This text file has all the description about Apache License 2.0 and its use |
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This text file contains the information and purpose of... |