Is there a streaming API for JSON?

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Some JSON parsers do offer incremental ("streaming") parser; for Java, at least following parsers from json.org page offer such an interface:

• Jackson (pull interface)
• Json-simple (SAX-style push interface)

(in addition to Software Monkey's parser referred to by another answer)

Actually, it is kind of odd that so many JSON parsers do NOT offer this simple low-level interface -- after all, they already need to implement low-level parsing, so why not expose it.

EDIT (June 2011): Gson too has its own streaming API (with gson 1.6)