As discussed during this year Code Sprint at FOSS4G 2015 in Seoul with Knut and his team it may be a great addition the ZOO-Project to support the JSON format for the ZCFG files.

This way, checking for validity of ZCFG files can be easier as any text editor will tell you if a bracket was not close or something similar. Despite the ZCFG file format is now less restrictive than ever before it is still a good idea to use JSON format for the ZCFG files, so I will try to implement this as an optional support as I did for the YAML support which is still too much complicated for our purpose.