How to customise the Jackson JSON mapper in Spring Web MVC

How to customise the Jackson JSON mapper in Spring Web MVC

Spring MVC using annotations is great for AJAX + JSON until you need to customise the JSON mapping.

If you are using Spring 3.1 take a look at configuring a message converter as part of mvc namespace config for a more elegant solution.

There is an option to add annotations directly to your model classes, but if you want to keep them separate you can do the following:

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