A "bill of materials" POM for Jackson dependencies.

Since Jackson 2.9.2 also contains jackson-base internal parent for actual Jackson components: this should not be relied by components other than standard Jackson component maintained by development team. It is bundled here for convenience.

There are two ways to use the BOM pom: either as parent pom:

  <parent>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-bom</artifactId>
    <version>2.11.0</version>
  </parent>

or by importing just the dependencies:

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-bom</artifactId>
            <version>2.11.0</version>
            <scope>import</scope>
            <type>pom</type>
        </dependency>   
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

Two approaches are same with respect to dependency inclusion; latter ONLY includes dependencies, former includes many other settings. Usually latter is preferable, unless component is very closely coupled with core Jackson components.

Note that this repo ALSO contains jackson-base (see under dir base/), which is the intended parent pom for Jackson core components. It extends jackson-bom, augmenting with settings that are only/mostly relevant for Jackson components, but not to things that depend on Jackson in general. Use of jackson-base is not recommended for libraries that are not meant to be coupled with Jackson release cycle and settings.