JSON
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JavaScript Object Notation
JSON is billed as 'fat-free XML' and has become popular as a simple message format.
Wikipedia's article on JSON gives some background.
The JSON.org site is also quite good, and contains a list of libraries availble in different languages for easy processing of JSON.
All WebServer AJAX endpoints, AppServer endpoints return JSON formatted data, and all messages passed in SQS queues are in JSON format.
