On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Damiano ALBANI
<damiano.albani_at_univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
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> Oh I see -- I actually thought that Jersey used Jackson by default...
> But I've done some quick tests and it seems that using Jackson departs from
> the whole JAX-RS idea.
No, not at all. Jackson is orthogonal to JAX-RS -- it implements JSON
handling and data binding, whereas JAX-RS handles REST(like) web
service integration aspects. Thus JAX-RS implementations like Jersey
can use Jackson for pluggable data binding aspects.
You may be assuming that Jersey's alternative JSON handlers were part
of JAX-RS, but this is not the case; JAX-RS does not really cover data
binding or data format aspects.
-+ Tatu +-