I'm looking for a module for the new JDK8 java.time classes. I have looked through the FasterXML GitHub Project Listing and presently found none.
As I understand Jackson is still being compiled against JDK6 so can not use these classes directly and must have this built as a separate module, as was required with Joda.
I don't mind starting the project, though looking to see if any other efforts were already underway.
As already mentioned, Jackson-Datatype-JSR310 provides support for Java 8 Time.
Since Jackson 2.6.0 the "old" JSR310Module is deprecated. It is replaced by JavaTimeModule. Maven dependency is the same (you can find the current version in Maven Central):
You have to register the module like this:
Or like this:
Or like this (since 2.10 possible):
JavaTimeModule Source at GitHub
JavaTimeModule Usage