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Jackson Core: Databind

Licensing

Project is licensed under Apache License 2.0 (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt) like all official Jackson components.

Documentation

Reference manual

• Databind-specific annotations (beyond core annotations)
• On/off features:
  • MapperFeature
  • DeserializationFeature
  • SerializationFeature
  • DatatypeFeature (2.14+)
    • EnumFeature
    • JsonNodeFeature

Developer-oriented

• (Json)Deserializer Discovery (Jackson 2.x)

Javadocs

• v2.x Javadoc for jackson-databind
• v1.x Javadoc for jackson-mapper-asl (previous name for this component)

External

• Cowtowncoder Blog on Medium has many Jackson- and Java-related entries
• old CowTalk Blog (<= 2013) has many Jackson-related entries

Download

The most convenient method for using Jackson is to use Maven repositories and build/deploy system that can access versions there. But here are quick links to publish directories for cases where manual jar installation is necessary.

Stable versions

For full version status, see Jackson Releases wiki.

Snapshots

Snapshots can be found from Sonatype Maven Snapshot repository:

  <repository>
    <id>central-snapshots</id>
    <name>Sonatype Central Portal (snapshots)</name>
    <url>https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots</url>
    <releases><enabled>false</enabled></releases>
    <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
  </repository>