Exploring the sample data provider project

In many of this course's exercises, I'll be using existing data and serializing,…or marshaling, it to XML. So, I'll need an existing data source.…Instead of a full database, I've provided a set of JSON and XML files.…They're wrapped up in an Eclipse Project.…In Eclipse, select File, Import, choose existing projects into workspace and…click next.…Choose select archive file and click browse.…

Go to the exercise files 01 getting started folder and choose…data provider and follow the rest of the prompts to import it.…> The data provider project has a…couple of classes, including a data provider class,…a customer class in the model package, and…a stop watch class in the utilities package.…I'll use all of these classes during the demonstrations.…And most importantly, here are the data files.…The one I'll use most frequently is customers.json.…

It's a JavaScript object notation file that contains 1000 data items.…Each item has an ID, a name, a phone, about age balance, active and joined.…And a variety of data types.…