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AWS Lambda OpenTracing Java SDK

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json-simple dependency seems to be not used and redundant. #26

Closed agarbutt closed 4 years ago

agarbutt commented 4 years ago

Reviewing the dependencies for this project, the dependency json-simple has offered a few challenges for us.

It is not used in this project and it isn't clear if this is need as a runtime dependency from the Open Tracing library.
Its yet another JSON library that is redundant given the dependency on the AWS Java SDK.
It no longer seems to be supported and won't be updated to support Java 11 or newer.

Wondering if it makes sense to simply remove it from this library?