Doc Outline

Purpose

This page provides an skeletal outline for the documentation effort.

Outline

• Introduction
  • What is Jackson
  • Who uses Jackson
  • Related Projects
  • External Resources
• Intro to Docs
  • Common scenario introduction
  • Common scenario javadoc links, src links, binary downloads
• Quick Start
  • Simple Serialization and Deserialization (Marshal and Unmarshal)
    • Simple intro to methods, perhaps a simple pro/con matrix of each approach
    • Data Binding approach (scenario: simple 3rd party data dump)
    • Tree Model approach (scenario: sanitizing previous 3rd party files created)
    • Streaming API approach (scenario: reading in 3rd party data push...very big file, only need a small part)
  • ....
• Teaching Jackson Literacy (Customize handling, dealing with inheritance, etc)
  • JsonView
  • Dynamic Filters
  • ...
• Mastering Jackson
  • BYOC
  • Mr. Bean
  • Mix-in
  • JSON Schema
  • ...
• Extending Jackson
  • Custom serializers/deserializers
  • Contextual Handlers
  • Modules
  • ...
• Subprojects
  • SMILE
  • JAX-RS
  • ...
• FAQ
  • faq questions...