Creating JSON objects directly from model classes in Java

Question

I have some model classes like Customer, Product, etc. in my project which have several fields and their setter-getter methods, I need to e

Answer 1

Google GSON does this; I've used it on several projects and it's simple and works well. It can do the translation for simple objects with no intervention, but there's a mechanism for customizing the translation (in both directions,) as well.

Gson g = ...;
String jsonString = g.toJson(new Customer());