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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

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

Note: designation in parenthesis indicates whether new patch releases may be issued for branch -- typically we try to keep 2 open branches.

• 2.16.1 (Dec 2023) (open branch)
• 2.15.3 (Oct 2023) (open branch)
• 2.14.3 (May 2023) (closed branch)
• 2.13.5 (Jan 2023) (closed branch)
• 2.12.7 (May 2022) (closed branch)
• 2.11.4 (December 2020) (closed branch)
• 2.10.5 (July 2020) (closed branch)
• 2.9.10 (September 2019) (closed branch)
• for older releases, check out http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-databind directly

Snapshots

Snapshots can be found from Sonatype Maven Snapshot repository:

<snapshotRepository>
  <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
  <name>Sonatype Nexus Snapshots</name>
  <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
</snapshotRepository>