Jackson is a High-performance JSON processor Java library. In this tutorial, we show you how to use Jackson’s data binding to convert Java object to / from JSON.
For object/json conversion, you need to know following two methods :
//1. Convert Java object to JSON format
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.writeValue(new File("c:\\user.json"), user);
//2. Convert JSON to Java object
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
User user = mapper.readValue(new File("c:\\user.json"), User.class);
Note
Both writeValue() and readValue() has many overloaded methods to support different type of inputs and outputs. Make sure check it out.

1. Jackson Dependency

Jackson contains 6 separate jars for different purpose, check here. In this case, you only need “jackson-mapper-asl” to handle the conversion, just declares following dependency in your pom.xml
  
 
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