Project Summary
SnakeYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for the Java programming language. SnakeYAML tries to be as close as possible to PyYAML API allowing documents to be easily exchanged between Python and Java.
SnakeYAML features
* a complete YAML 1.1 parser. In particular, SnakeYAML can parse all examples from the specification.
* Unicode support including UTF-8/UTF-16 input/output.
* high-level API for serializing and deserializing native Java objects.
* support for all types from the YAML types repository.
* relatively sensible error messages.
In a Nutshell, SnakeYAML...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a small development team
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took an estimated 11 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 2009
ending with its most recent commit about 1 month ago
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