# jackson-databind 2.8.0.rc1 API

Packages
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind: Basic data binding (mapping) functionality that allows for reading JSON content into Java Objects (POJOs) and JSON Trees (`JsonNode`), as well as writing Java Objects and trees as JSON.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation: Annotations that directly depend on classes in databinding bundle (not just Jackson core) and can not be included in Jackson core annotations package (because it can not have any external dependencies).
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.cfg: Package that contains most of configuration-related classes; exception being couple of most-commonly used configuration things (like Feature enumerations) that are at the main level (`com.fasterxml.jackson.databind`).
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser: Contains implementation classes of deserialization part of data binding.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.impl: Contains those implementation classes of deserialization part of data binding that are not considered part of public or semi-public interfaces.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std: Contains public standard implementations of abstraction that Jackson uses.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc
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.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect: Functionality needed for Bean introspection, required for detecting accessors and mutators for Beans, as well as locating and handling method annotations.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsonFormatVisitors: Classes used for exposing logical structure of POJOs as Jackson sees it, and exposed via `ObjectMapper.acceptJsonFormatVisitor(Class, JsonFormatVisitorWrapper)` and `ObjectMapper.acceptJsonFormatVisitor(com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JavaType, JsonFormatVisitorWrapper)` methods.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsonschema: Classes needed for JSON schema support (currently just ability to generate schemas using serialization part of data mapping)
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype: Package that contains interfaces that define how to implement functionality for dynamically resolving type during deserialization.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.impl: Package that contains standard implementations for `TypeResolverBuilder` and `TypeIdResolver`.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module: Package that contains classes and interfaces to help implement custom extension `Module`s (which are registered using `ObjectMapper.registerModule(com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.Module)`.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node: Contains concrete `JsonNode` implementations Jackson uses for the Tree model.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser: Contains implementation classes of serialization part of data binding.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.impl: Contains implementation classes of serialization part of data binding.
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type: Package that contains concrete implementations of `JavaType`, as well as the factory (`TypeFactory`) for constructing instances from various input data types (like `Class`, `Type`) and programmatically (for structured types, arrays, `List`s and `Map`s).
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util: Utility classes for Mapper package.