[gord]

I also tend to use JSON as the main messaging format for Client/Server communications [ where I might have used sockets custom binary protocol previously ].

This means I can reuse the same REST style data 'provider' from within a Javascript web UI and within an iOS or Android client app.

So theres quite a few reasons why using JSON simplifies things for me - particularly I notice that there is a whole layer or ORM style boilerplate code that I dont need now [ whether its SQLLite <-> Object or XML <--> Object ].

I actually like the SQL Lite implementation!