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title: JSON
date: 2025-02-11
description: Discover the latest news about JSON technology and how Altova provides innovative JSON tools across the product line.
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Status: #category

Categories: [data-integration](/blog/category/data-integration.md) [development](/blog/category/development.md)
# JSON
JSON (JavaScript Orientation Notation) is a light-weight, text-based, open standard for data interchange. 

Today, JSON is widely used in web development, data exchange, and storage due to its simplicity, flexibility, and interoperability across different programming languages and platforms. Its concise syntax and text-based format make it easy to read and write, and its analyze-able data structure allows for straightforward serialization and deserialization to and from various data formats, like XML and YAML. Additionally, JSON is a popular data exchange format for web APIs, supporting efficient and extensible communication between systems and applications. 

![Image representing JSON](/blog/images/json.png)

Altova products support JSON in multiple ways, including graphical JSON editing, JSON Schema generation, JSON data integration, BSON support, and more. Here is a selection of articles on working with JSON: 

- [AI Tools for JSON Development](/blog/2026/05/new-altova-ai-smart-assistance-for-xmlspy-mapforce-and-databasespy.md)
- [Revolutionary JSON Grid View](/blog/2019/10/version-2020-revolutionizes-json-editing.md)
- [5 Reasons to Choose a Graphical JSON Schema Editor](/blog/2023/09/5-reasons-to-choose-a-graphical-json-schema-editor.md)
- [AI-based Sentiment Analysis](/blog/2023/07/ai-based-support-request-sentiment-analysis-using-mapforce-and-gpt-4.md)
- [How to View and Edit BSON (Binary JSON)](/blog/2025/11/how-to-view-and-edit-bson.md)
- [Tools for Editing Large JSON Docs](/blog/2023/05/new-tools-for-large-xml-and-json-documents.md)