Jakarta JSON Binding 2.1 (under development)

Jakarta JSON Binding defines a binding framework for converting Java(R) objects to and from JSON documents.

The goal of this release is to provide features requested by the community, such as:

Deserialization of the null to the JsonValue.NULL_VALUE - JSON-B API #181
@JsonbTypeDeserializer and @JsonbTypeAdapter supported as a parameter/type annotation - JSON-B API #71
Support for handling polymorphic types - JSON-B API #147
TypeToken implementation - JSON-B API #165
Default PropertyVisibilityStrategy implementations - JSON-B API #164
Customization of the classes via configuration - JSON-B API #88
Optional MicroProfile Configuration support - JSON-B API #172
AnnotatedType deserialization method on Jsonb and JsonbTypeDeserializer - JSON-B API #66
Class level annotation for PropertyNamingStrategy definition - JSON-B API #46
Deprecate @JsonbProperty.nillable() - JSON-B API #52

The JDK version required will be aligned with Jakarta EE 10.

Ballots

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2021-04-30 with the following results.

Representative	Representative for:	Vote
Kenji Kazumura	Fujitsu	+1
Dan Bandera, Kevin Sutter	IBM	+1
Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov	Oracle	+1
Andrew Pielage, Matt Gill	Payara	+1
Scott Stark, Mark Little	Red Hat	+1
David Blevins, Jean-Louis Monteiro	Tomitribe	+1
Ivar Grimstad	EE4J PMC	+1
Marcelo Ancelmo, Martijn Verburg	Participant Members	+1
Werner Keil	Committer Members	+1
Dr. Jun Qian	Enterprise Members	+1
	Total	10