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[Jersey] Re: Time to upgrade to Jackson 1.8?

From: Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:36:46 -0700

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Gili <cowwoc_at_bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
> Jersey-json depends on Jackson 1.7 which is no longer being supported, see
> http://jackson.codehaus.org/
>
> Please consider upgrading to the latest 1.8 version.

FWIW, upgrade from 1.7 to 1.8 should be safe; less likely to cause any
issues compared to some other transitions (1.6->1.7 had relatively
more potential issues for some advanced use cases).

Also: many useful Jackson modules (Scala and Hibernate ones, for
example) rely on 1.8.x, so upgrade would be good in enabling more
users to check out these extensions. I know that just because Jersey
depends on particular version does not usually prevent upgrade, but it
would be nice to upgrade when it becomes possible.

-+ Tatu +-