Comparison with Jackson

Juneau was developed independently from Jackson but shares many of the same features and capabilities. Whereas Jackson was created to work primarily with JSON, Juneau was created to work for multiple languages. Therefore, the terminology and annotations in Juneau are similar but language-agnostic.

The following charts describe equivalent features between the two libraries:

Annotations

Jackson	Juneau
@JsonGetter @JsonSetter	@Beanp
@JsonAnyGetter @JsonAnySetter	@Beanp(name="*")
@JsonIgnore @JsonIgnoreType	@BeanIgnore
@JsonIgnoreProperties({...})	@Bean(excludeProperties|xp)
@JsonAutoDetect(fieldVisibility=...)	No equivalent annotation but can be controlled via: BeanContext.Builder.beanFieldVisibility(Visibility) BeanContext.Builder.beanMethodVisibility(Visibility)
@JsonCreator @JsonProperty	@Beanc
@JacksonInject	No equivalent.
@JsonSerialize @JsonDeserialize	Juneau uses swaps to convert non-serializable object to serializable forms: @Swap
@JsonInclude	No equivalent annotation but can be controlled via various settings: BeanContext Serializer
@JsonPropertyOrder	@Bean(properties="...") @Bean(sort=x)
@JsonValue @JsonRawValue	Can be replicated using swaps with Reader swapped values.