Jackson JSON Processor for Payara JAX-RS serialization/deserialization
Want to use Payara / Glassfish with JAX-RS and Jackson to serialize/deserialize objects to/from JSON? Pay extra attention as it might bite you as it had bit me. I was more than sure that Payara is using Jackson as JSON processor (I’ve checked pom.xml dependencies of Payara and found that Jackson 2.5.1 is defined there). Therefore, I started using all those nice @JsonProperty or @JsonAutoDetect annotations while scratching my head why is Payara ignoring them but still did “some” serialization using some defaults, i....