diff --git a/JSON/samples/BenchmarkApp/Makefile b/JSON/samples/BenchmarkApp/Makefile
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+#
+# Makefile
+#
+# $Id$
+#
+# Makefile for Poco JSON BenchmarkApp
+#
+
+include $(POCO_BASE)/build/rules/global
+
+objects = BenchmarkApp
+
+target         = BenchmarkApp
+target_version = 1
+target_libs    = PocoJSON PocoFoundation
+
+include $(POCO_BASE)/build/rules/exec
diff --git a/JSON/samples/BenchmarkApp/input b/JSON/samples/BenchmarkApp/input
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+{"web-app": {
+  "servlet": [   
+    {
+      "servlet-name": "cofaxCDS",
+      "servlet-class": "org.cofax.cds.CDSServlet",
+      "init-param": {
+        "configGlossary:installationAt": "Philadelphia, PA",
+        "configGlossary:adminEmail": "ksm@pobox.com",
+        "configGlossary:poweredBy": "Cofax",
+        "configGlossary:poweredByIcon": "/images/cofax.gif",
+        "configGlossary:staticPath": "/content/static",
+        "templateProcessorClass": "org.cofax.WysiwygTemplate",
+        "templateLoaderClass": "org.cofax.FilesTemplateLoader",
+        "templatePath": "templates",
+        "templateOverridePath": "",
+        "defaultListTemplate": "listTemplate.htm",
+        "defaultFileTemplate": "articleTemplate.htm",
+        "useJSP": false,
+        "jspListTemplate": "listTemplate.jsp",
+        "jspFileTemplate": "articleTemplate.jsp",
+        "cachePackageTagsTrack": 200,
+        "cachePackageTagsStore": 200,
+        "cachePackageTagsRefresh": 60,
+        "cacheTemplatesTrack": 100,
+        "cacheTemplatesStore": 50,
+        "cacheTemplatesRefresh": 15,
+        "cachePagesTrack": 200,
+        "cachePagesStore": 100,
+        "cachePagesRefresh": 10,
+        "cachePagesDirtyRead": 10,
+        "searchEngineListTemplate": "forSearchEnginesList.htm",
+        "searchEngineFileTemplate": "forSearchEngines.htm",
+        "searchEngineRobotsDb": "WEB-INF/robots.db",
+        "useDataStore": true,
+        "dataStoreClass": "org.cofax.SqlDataStore",
+        "redirectionClass": "org.cofax.SqlRedirection",
+        "dataStoreName": "cofax",
+        "dataStoreDriver": "com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver",
+        "dataStoreUrl": "jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://LOCALHOST:1433;DatabaseName=goon",
+        "dataStoreUser": "sa",
+        "dataStorePassword": "dataStoreTestQuery",
+        "dataStoreTestQuery": "SET NOCOUNT ON;select test='test';",
+        "dataStoreLogFile": "/usr/local/tomcat/logs/datastore.log",
+        "dataStoreInitConns": 10,
+        "dataStoreMaxConns": 100,
+        "dataStoreConnUsageLimit": 100,
+        "dataStoreLogLevel": "debug",
+        "maxUrlLength": 500}},
+    {
+      "servlet-name": "cofaxEmail",
+      "servlet-class": "org.cofax.cds.EmailServlet",
+      "init-param": {
+      "mailHost": "mail1",
+      "mailHostOverride": "mail2"}},
+    {
+      "servlet-name": "cofaxAdmin",
+      "servlet-class": "org.cofax.cds.AdminServlet"},
+ 
+    {
+      "servlet-name": "fileServlet",
+      "servlet-class": "org.cofax.cds.FileServlet"},
+    {
+      "servlet-name": "cofaxTools",
+      "servlet-class": "org.cofax.cms.CofaxToolsServlet",
+      "init-param": {
+        "templatePath": "toolstemplates/",
+        "log": 1,
+        "logLocation": "/usr/local/tomcat/logs/CofaxTools.log",
+        "logMaxSize": "",
+        "dataLog": 1,
+        "dataLogLocation": "/usr/local/tomcat/logs/dataLog.log",
+        "dataLogMaxSize": "",
+        "removePageCache": "/content/admin/remove?cache=pages&id=",
+        "removeTemplateCache": "/content/admin/remove?cache=templates&id=",
+        "fileTransferFolder": "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/content/fileTransferFolder",
+        "lookInContext": 1,
+        "adminGroupID": 4,
+        "betaServer": true}}],
+  "servlet-mapping": {
+    "cofaxCDS": "/",
+    "cofaxEmail": "/cofaxutil/aemail/*",
+    "cofaxAdmin": "/admin/*",
+    "fileServlet": "/static/*",
+    "cofaxTools": "/tools/*"},
+ 
+  "taglib": {
+    "taglib-uri": "cofax.tld",
+    "taglib-location": "/WEB-INF/tlds/cofax.tld"}}}
diff --git a/JSON/samples/BenchmarkApp/src/BenchmarkApp.cpp b/JSON/samples/BenchmarkApp/src/BenchmarkApp.cpp
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index 000000000..dd1cadfbb
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+++ b/JSON/samples/BenchmarkApp/src/BenchmarkApp.cpp
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+//
+// BenchmarkApp.cpp
+//
+// $Id$
+//
+// This sample shows a benchmark of the JSON parser.
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2004-2012, Applied Informatics Software Engineering GmbH.
+// and Contributors.
+//
+// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
+// obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
+// this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
+// execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
+// Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
+// do so, all subject to the following:
+//
+// The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
+// the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
+// must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
+// all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
+// works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
+// a source language processor.
+//
+// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+// IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
+// SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
+// FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
+// ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+// DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+//
+
+#include "Poco/Timestamp.h"
+#include "Poco/JSON/Parser.h"
+#include "Poco/JSON/DefaultHandler.h"
+#include "Poco/JSON/JSONException.h"
+#include "Poco/Environment.h"
+#include "Poco/Path.h"
+#include "Poco/File.h"
+#include "Poco/FileStream.h"
+#include "Poco/StreamCopier.h"
+
+#include <iostream>
+#include <iomanip>
+
+void printTimeDiff(const Poco::Timestamp& start, const Poco::Timestamp& end)
+{
+	Poco::Timestamp::TimeDiff diff = end - start;
+	std::cout << std::setw(25) << std::left << diff;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv)
+{
+	Poco::JSON::Object::Ptr obj;
+
+	std::string dir = Poco::Environment::get("POCO_BASE") + "/JSON/samples/BenchmarkApp/";
+	Poco::Path filePath(dir, "input");
+
+	std::ostringstream ostr;
+
+	if ( filePath.isFile() )
+	{
+		Poco::File inputFile(filePath);
+		if ( inputFile.exists() )
+		{
+			Poco::FileInputStream fis(filePath.toString());
+			Poco::StreamCopier::copyStream(fis, ostr);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			std::cout << filePath.toString() << " doesn't exist!" << std::endl;
+			return 1; 
+		}
+	}
+
+	std::cout << std::setw(25) << "POCO JSON";
+
+	std::string jsonStr = ostr.str();
+	
+	try
+	{
+		Poco::JSON::DefaultHandler handler;
+		Poco::JSON::Parser parser;
+		parser.setHandler(&handler);
+		Poco::Timestamp time1;
+		parser.parse(jsonStr);
+		Poco::DynamicAny result = handler.result();
+		Poco::Timestamp time2;
+		printTimeDiff(time1, time2);
+
+		if ( result.type() == typeid(Poco::JSON::Object::Ptr) )
+		{
+			obj = result.extract<Poco::JSON::Object::Ptr>();
+		}
+
+		//Serialize to string
+		std::ostringstream out;
+		Poco::Timestamp time3;
+		obj->stringify(out);
+		Poco::Timestamp time4;
+		printTimeDiff(time3, time4);
+		std::cout << std::endl;
+	}
+	catch(Poco::JSON::JSONException jsone)
+	{
+		std::cout << jsone.message() << std::endl;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/JSON/samples/Makefile b/JSON/samples/Makefile
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+#
+# Makefile
+#
+# $Id$
+#
+# Makefile for Poco JSON Samples
+#
+
+.PHONY: projects
+clean all: projects
+projects:
+	$(MAKE) -C BenchmarkApp $(MAKECMDGOALS)
+