YAML(Ain’t Markup Language) is a human friendly , cross language, unicode based data serialization format designed for interaction with all programming languages.

File Name Extension : .yml or .yaml

Latest Release : 1.2

It is broadly use for programming:

• Configuration Files
• Internet Messaging
• Object Persistence to data auditing
• Also support for Unicode standards characters.

YAML allow data to show itself in a natural and meaningful way and provide a unique cleanness by minimizing the amount of structural characters.
For example: indentation may be used for structure, colons use to separate “mapping key: value” pairs, and dashes are used to create “bullet” lists for showing collections of data.

YAML is a superset of JSON : you can convert YAML to JSON by different API’s

YAML Goals

Below are main design goals for YAML :

• YAML is easily readable and understandable by humans.
• YAML is expressive and extensible.
• YAML is easy to implement and use.
• YAML matches the native data structures of agile languages.
• YAML data is portable between programming languages.
• YAML has a consistent model to support generic tools.
• YAML supports one-pass processing.

YAML Documents Processing

A YAML document is parsed only when the iterator is invoked (lazy evaluation).

More

To know more about YAML Syntax, Configuration with Java and other supporting language, frameworks and tools, Sample configuration files and JSON and YAML conversion follow below YAML Tutorials and YAML related exceptions follow YAML Issues.

• YAML Tutorials
• YAML Issues and Solutions