JSON, called Javascript Object Notation is being used for integrating computer systems based on XML and WDDX. If using JSON with CFM, you don't need to do much because CFC can output json data.

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1<!--- Send an http request to the Yahoo Web Search Service. --->
2<cfhttp url='http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?appid=YahooDemo&amp;query="ColdFusion Ajax"&amp;output=json'>
3<!--- The result is a JSON-formatted string that represents a structure.
4Convert it to a ColdFusion structure. --->
5<cfset myJSON=DeserializeJSON(#cfhttp.FileContent#)>
6<!--- Display the results. --->
7<cfoutput>
8
9Results of search for "ColdFusion 8"
10
11There were #myJSON.ResultSet.totalResultsAvailable# Entries.
12
13Here are the first #myJSON.ResultSet.totalResultsReturned#.
14
15<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#myJSON.ResultSet.totalResultsReturned#">
16    <a href="#myJSON.ResultSet.Result[i].URL#">
17        #myJSON.ResultSet.Result[i].Title#
18    </a>
19    #myJSON.ResultSet.Result[i].Summary#
20</cfloop>
21</cfoutput>

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