java - Correct set of dependencies for using Jackson mapper

Question

I am new to Jackson and I was writing some code for practice. I found out the the new version of Jackson library can be found on Fasterxml: Jackson, so I added the below dependencies to my Maven pom file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>

I was expecting that I can use the ObjectMapper directly, however after spending a lot of time I found out that to use the ObjectMapper I have to add the old libraries below:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.2</version>
</dependency>

I am a bit confused. Could someone please tell me why is that?

Answer 1

<properties>
  <!-- Use the latest version whenever possible. -->
  <jackson.version>2.4.4</jackson.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
   <dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>${jackson.version}</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

you have a ObjectMapper (from Jackson Databind package) handy. if so, you can do:

JsonFactory factory = objectMapper.getFactory();

Source: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core

So, the 3 "fasterxml" dependencies which you already have in u'r pom are enough for ObjectMapper as it includes jackson-databind.