Merge pull request #27 from agarbutt/remove-json-simple

Addresses GitHub Issue #26 - Removes the `json-simple` dependency.

Author: jeffalder

build.gradle

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-s3:1.11.163'
     implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-kinesis:1.11.163'
     implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-dynamodb:1.11.163'
-    implementation 'com.googlecode.json-simple:json-simple:1.1'
     implementation('io.opentracing:opentracing-api:0.31.0')
     implementation('io.opentracing:opentracing-util:0.31.0')
     implementation('io.opentracing:opentracing-noop:0.31.0')