Data insertion to CouchDB using Lightcouch lib in Java (Sample)

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Introduction

Hello, a small sample on how to insert JSON data to couchDB.

First off there are MANY java libraries for accessing couchdb. For information on which one to choose for you the 2 links below may help:
1) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1105807/which-java-library-libraries-for-couchdb
2) http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Getting_started_with_Java

In this post we made use of LightCouch as we wanted something relatively simple without object mappings and other such features.

Aside: an also interesting tutorial utilizing couchdb4j with description of sessions is: http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/223100116