/** Contains basic mapper (conversion) functionality that allows for converting between regular streaming json content and Java objects (beans or Tree Model: support for both is via {@link sh.calaba.org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper} class, as well as convenience methods included in {@link sh.calaba.org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser}
Object mapper will convert Json content to ant from basic Java wrapper types (Integer, Boolean, Double), Collection types (List, Map), Java Beans, Strings and nulls.
Tree mapper builds dynamically typed tree of JsonNode
s
from Json content (and writes such trees as Json),
similar to how DOM model works with xml.
Main benefits over Object mapping are: