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JavaScript Object Notation for Ajax Web services

While Web services continue to be deployed on many corporate applications, a lot of thought continues to go into design issues ranging from reusability to security. Yet what is almost an afterthought is the actual payload structured as XML. After all, it's XML which provides Web services their platform/language independence, but as it turns out, there are certain Web service scenarios in which better payload alternatives can be used, one of them being JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), an approach which has recently grown in popularity for Web service clients in the form of a browser. [....]