Package org.codehaus.jackson.type

Contains classes needed for type introspection, mostly used by data binding functionality.

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Class Summary

JavaType	Base class for type token classes used both to contain information and as keys for deserializers.
TypeReference<T>	This class is based on ideas from [http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-type-tokens.html].

Package org.codehaus.jackson.type Description

Contains classes needed for type introspection, mostly used by data binding functionality. Most of this functionality is needed to properly handled generic types, and to simplify and unify processing of things Jackson needs to determine how contained types (of Collection and Map classes) are to be handled.