## Package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ext

Contains extended support for "external" packages: things that may or may not be present in runtime environment, but that are commonly enough used so that explicit support can be added.

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Description

Class Summary
CoreXMLDeserializers: Container deserializers that handle "core" XML types: ones included in standard JDK 1.5.
CoreXMLDeserializers.DurationDeserializer
CoreXMLDeserializers.GregorianCalendarDeserializer
CoreXMLDeserializers.QNameDeserializer
CoreXMLSerializers: Provider for serializers of XML types that are part of full JDK 1.5, but that some alleged 1.5 platforms are missing (Android, GAE).
CoreXMLSerializers.XMLGregorianCalendarSerializer
DOMDeserializer<T>: Base for serializers that allows parsing DOM Documents from JSON Strings.
DOMDeserializer.DocumentDeserializer
DOMDeserializer.NodeDeserializer
DOMSerializer
OptionalHandlerFactory: Helper class used for isolating details of handling optional+external types (javax.xml classes) from standard factories that offer them.

## Package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ext Description

Contains extended support for "external" packages: things that may or may not be present in runtime environment, but that are commonly enough used so that explicit support can be added.

Currently supported extensions include:

- Support for Java 1.5 core XML datatypes: the reason these are considered "external" is that some platforms that claim to be 1.5 conformant are only partially so (Google Android, GAE) and do not included these types.
- Joda time. This package has superior date/time handling functionality, and is thus supported. However, to minimize forced dependencies this support is added as extension so that Joda is not needed by Jackson itself: but if it is present, its core types are supported to some degree

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