Using org.codehaus.jackson read json string

JSONReader

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
import org.codehaus.jackson.type.TypeReference;

/**
 *
 * @author Rivet Systems
 */
public class JSONReader {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String json = "{\"name\":\"Uttesh\", \"blog\":\"uttesh.blogspot.com\"}";

        Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

        try {

            //convert JSON string to Map
            map = mapper.readValue(json,
                    new TypeReference<HashMap<String, String>>() {
                    });

            System.out.println(map);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}