mavenize the project

[yusuke]

Currently maven is the most popular project build system.
By mavenizing the project, it'll be much easier to maintain, do continuous integration and more.

[douglascrockford]

When Maven is the only build system I will consider it.

[yusuke]

Well, maven is not the only build system.

But it is "the only build system" which is supported by many other popular build systems including Aapche Ivy, Apache Buildr, Apache Ant, Groovy Grape.
Additionally major IDEs including Eclipse, IntelliJ and NetBeans are supporting maven.
http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/the-build-tool-report-turnaround-times-using-ant-maven-eclipse-intellij-and-netbeans/

If the library is not mavenized, users need to manually update JSON-java lib.
But if it is mavenized, the library is updated automatically upon build-time.

[jinahya]

For anyone's information, JSON-Java-MG is in action.

[johnjaylward]

yeah, I did something similar on my clone as well. https://github.com/johnjaylward/Json-Java-Combined

To be honest, I'm not a fan of working with the modules. I think long term, the 2 projects will just need to be merged. How that looks is up for debate, but so far all the pull requests for something similar to what we did have been declined.