I want to parse a text file packed into my JAR. I would prefer it to be in JSON format and use a library like jackson or gson to parse it, but are we allowed to pack libraries into our JARs (and release them on the sdn)? Or perhaps there's a standard way that I should know about? If there is no alternative I guess scanner/regex/etc. should be fine.
You don't send jars to the bot store. There are other ways to save/load data. You could use the ManagedProperty available in getSettings(), you could create a file in Environment.getStorageDirectory(). If you want to use json, then you would be best off using a small json library like minimal-json.
