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This is what i have tried

try {
        obj = new JSONParser().parse(new FileReader("jsonExampl.json"));
        JSONObject jo = (JSONObject) obj;
        empid = (String) jo.get("EmployeeId");
        firstname = (String) jo.get("FirstName");
        lastname = (String) jo.get("LastName");
        DOB = (String) jo.get("DOB");
        String ae = (String) jo.get("Age");
        System.out.println("Employee Id:- "+ empid);
        System.out.println("First Name:- "+ firstname);
        System.out.println("Last Name:- "+ lastname);
        System.out.println("DOB:- "+ DOB);
        System.out.println("Age:- "+ ae);
        Map address = ((Map)jo.get("Address"));
        Iterator<Map.Entry> itr1 = address.entrySet().iterator(); 
        while (itr1.hasNext()) { 
            Map.Entry pair = itr1.next(); 
            System.out.println(pair.getKey() + " : " + pair.getValue()); 
        phnumber=(String) jo.get("PhoneNumber");
        personalemail = (String) jo.get("PersonalMail");
        officialemail = (String) jo.get("OfficialMail");
        department = (String) jo.get("Department");
        DOJ = (String) jo.get("DOJ");
        Education = (String) jo.get("Education");
        System.out.println("Employee Phone:- "+ phnumber);
        System.out.println("Personal:- "+ personalemail);
        System.out.println("Official:- "+ officialemail);
        System.out.println("DOJ:- "+ DOJ);
        System.out.println("Education:- "+ Education);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO: handle exception
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
The code is not working when I try to parse the json array, so I get:
class org.json.simple.JSONArray cannot be cast to class org.json.simple.JSONObject (org.json.simple.JSONArray and org.json.simple.JSONObject are in unnamed module of loader 'app')
Please help
Thank you in Advance
                you are trying to parse it to a JSONObject, while you should be parsing it to a JSONArray, the error message is pretty clear
– Stultuske
                Oct 20, 2022 at 6:47
                Your top-level element is an array. array != object. array = list of things. object = thing with properties
– knittl
                Oct 20, 2022 at 6:51
You have to parse it to JSONArray as in the comment above. This is the fixed code:
        JSONArray array = (JSONArray) new JSONParser().parse(json);
        for(Object obj : array.stream().toArray()) {
            JSONObject jo = (JSONObject) obj;
            String empid = (String) jo.get("EmployeeId");
            String firstname = (String) jo.get("FirstName");
            String lastname = (String) jo.get("LastName");
            String DOB = (String) jo.get("DOB");
            String ae = (String) jo.get("Age");
            System.out.println("Employee Id:- " + empid);
            System.out.println("First Name:- " + firstname);
            System.out.println("Last Name:- " + lastname);
            System.out.println("DOB:- " + DOB);
            System.out.println("Age:- " + ae);
        
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