[jboss-as7-dev] depending on jackson-mapper-asl

[Anil Saldhana]

IMHO Jackson is like JAXB. I personally will avoid it.  It is just my 
opinion.
Sometime ago, when I had to do some json work, I just used the org.json 
stuff.


On 09/06/2011 09:44 AM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> Hi all,
> we're working on Hibernate Search 4, which sports besides many other
> changes a revamped serialization framework which uses Apache Avro;
> this is an important component towards a better integration with
> Infinispan and unlocking all potential of Hibernate OGM.
>
> Avro depends on:
>   org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-core-asl    (using 1.7.3)
>   org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl    (using 1.7.3)
>   com.thoughtworks.paranamer:paranamer    (using 2.3)
>   org.xerial.snappy:snappy-java    (using 1.0.1-rc3)
>
> While Hibernate Search is not part of the Application Server
> distribution, we noticed that the AS depends on jackson-mapper-asl too
> and some early adopters reported version conflicts.
>
> Even forcing Search to use the same version as AS 7.0.1 (1.6.3) all
> our tests are fine, but we would rather not bind our project to depend
> to AS7's specific versions, if you can suggest better alternatives.
>
> Please consider I'm not familiar with the AS7 classloader isolation
> details, but since we're not living under a stone our expectation was
> that application code should be isolated from this; is this something
> that should be enabled, or is Jackson "special" ?
>
> Possibly the users reporting these issues are doing something wrong? I
> have no forum links as this started from IRC but I can ask for more
> details if you could suggest what to look for.
>
> Regards,
> Sanne
>
> https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HSEARCH-887