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Jackson overview

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- [Narrator] Jackson. Jackson is a popular library for JSON processing in Java. It provides seamless integration with Spring MVC, enabling efficient parsing serialization and deserialization of JSON and XML data for web applications. Here are three main features of Jackson. One is JSON handling. It converts Java objects to JSON and vice versa. It's highly customizable with annotations and custom serializers and deserializers. It has XML support. So with the Jackson XML module, you can process XML data very similarly to JSON. Finally, annotations for control. You can use annotations like JSON ignore, JSON property, and JSON format to fine tune how data is serialized and deserialized. How does Spring MVC use Jackson? Spring MVC leverages Jackson for handling JSON and XML data through message converters. It supports features like request body parsing, response body serialization, and view integration. Let's look at how to handle JSON responses. Starting with a controller. So here I've…

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