Just to clarify... Jackson is also a dependency not just because of the annotations but it powers the hierarchical mapping. That is with Jackson you can turn maps of maps into hierarchy of objects. There are other libraries that do this but Jackson does this very well.
On Sunday, November 4, 2012 11:58:50 AM UTC-5, Lukas Eder wrote: > > > But on the java side, wouldn't the principle of immutable POJO force you > to > > write things like > > myNewTestBeanRecord = new TestBean( "Hello", 3000, "World", "Happy", > "New", > > "Year" (insert a dozen more values here > > all-the-same-type-that-are-easily-inverted) )? > > jOOQ 2.6 supports the java.beans.ConstructorProperties annotation, to > be sure that record values are mapped to the correct constructor > arguments: > http://www.jooq.org/doc/2.6/manual/sql-execution/fetching/pojos/#N11C85 > > Adam's JIRM goes a little farther and uses Jackson annotations, such as > these: > > @JsonCreator > public TestBean( > @JsonProperty("stringProp") String stringProp, > @JsonProperty("longProp") long longProp, > @JsonProperty("timeTS") Calendar timeTS ) { > > (taken from the samples here: https://github.com/agentgt/jirm) > > For jOOQ, a dependency on Jackson is currently not an option, though. >
