(and here’s what got added post 2.16.0-rc1) After a bit over 3 weeks of pre-release testing, official Jackson 2.16.0 release is now out. Most things included were already there in 2.16.0-rc1 (see “2.16.0-rc1 Overview”), but aside from bug fixes — which pushed total count of included changes over 100! …

Now that the first release candidate — 2.16.0-rc1 — has been released, it is time to have a look at what kind of goodies will Jackson 2.16 bring. One more minor 2.x release As with couple of previous 2.x releases (in fact ever since the last “big” one, 2.12), what we have here is more…

Now that Jackson 2.15 has been released (April 23, 2023) it is time for a quick overview what is included. Another “minor minor” release As with 2.14 what we have can be considered a “small” minor release, with few foundational changes. However the number of changes — almost 100 as per 2.15 Release Notes…

After writing my earlier post — “Jackson 2.15: faster floating-point reads” — I was reminded that it is not just reads: there has been support for faster writing of floating-point numbers too. This improvement was also include in Jackson 2.14 release, optionally enabled using matching feature JsonWriteFeature.USE_FAST_DOUBLE_WRITER. But as with…

One of new features included in Jackson 2.14 was StreamFeature.USE_FAST_DOUBLE_PARSER enabling of which makes parser use an alternative optimized decoding library (FastDoubleParser) to decode floating-point numbers from JSON (float, double, BigDecimal) — and other textual data formats (specifically CSV via jackson-dataformat-csv ). Upcoming Jackson 2.15 …

I started using Quarkus web framework quite recently (this year) and so far like it a lot. A lot of stuff comes out of the box; performance is good; documentation excellent. And so on. What’s not to like? This includes generation of basic index.html to serve as the service welcome…

It has been a while since Jackson 2.13 was released — about 9 months. Since then there has been steady progress, with about 50 fixes, improvements and new features (see in-progress 2.14 release notes for details). The plan is to get the first Release Candidate (2.14.0-rc1) out during August 2022. Let’s have…

Using java-uuid-generator — UUIDs? Universally Unique IDentifiers (UUIDs) are standard identifiers commonly used in distributed systems where guaranteed item id uniqueness is needed. They are 128-bit long identifiers generated using one of couple of possible generation mechanisms. …

aka 24 for 21 — One of my New Year’s goals — not a public one, just personal — for 2021 was that I would write and publish at least TWO blog posts every single month. I am very close to achieving this goal: not counting this post (I could, but that’d be bit meta), I…