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# Installation

The BSON library is a required dependency of all the MongoDB Java drivers and if using a  dependency management system, it will be 
automatically installed alongside the driver, however, it can be used as a standalone library. 
The recommended way to get started using one of the drivers in your project is with a dependency management system.

{{< distroPicker >}}


## BSON

This library comprehensively supports [BSON](http://www.bsonspec.org),
the data storage and network transfer format that MongoDB uses for "documents".
BSON is short for Binary [JSON](http://json.org/), is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents.

{{< install artifactId="bson" version="3.6.1" >}}
