This project is the main hub to all kinds of documentation related to the Jackson JSON Processor.
For your first steps in understanding how to use Jackson, following tutorials are good places to start:
README
for jackson-databind
project)(need links to Scala, Kotlin, Clojure tutorials, articles)
Jackson project hub has links to all active Jackson projects. These projects contain plenty of project-specific documentation, such as:
Blogs that regularly write about Jackson include:
And here are good articles around the web:
The easiest ways to participate is to join one of Jackson mailing lists (Jackson google groups):
There are other related lists and forums as well:
See (External) Jackson Sample Code.
Note that there are two major Jackson versions: 1.x (1.0 - 1.9) and 2.x (2.0 - 2.13). These versions can co-exist as they are located in different Java packages and use different jar naming and Maven group/artifact ids. But this means that you have to make sure that all components in use have matching major versions: specifically, Jackson 2.x code does NOT understand or support Jackson 1.x annotations, or vice versa.
Minor versions (like 2.1 and 2.2) are backwards compatible with respect to public API: old code should work without recompilation, if (but only if) it relies on external API; public methods, annotations. When overriding internal functionality, we try hard to maintain backwards compatibility between adjacent minor versions; need for changes is indicated by deprecating internal methods. Recompilation is thus recommended when extending by sub-classing, for example.