The Jakarta API for JSON Binding (JSON-B) feature provides a standard for converting between Java objects and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). The default JSON-B provider is configured via a <bell> which points at a library containing the JSON-B provider JAR file(s).

Enabling this feature

To enable the Jakarta JSON Binding 2.0 Container feature, add the following element declaration into your server.xml file, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>jsonbContainer-2.0</feature>

Standard API packages provided by this feature

  • jakarta.json.bind

  • jakarta.json.bind.adapter

  • jakarta.json.bind.annotation

  • jakarta.json.bind.config

  • jakarta.json.bind.serializer

  • jakarta.json.bind.spi

Features that this feature enables

Supported Java versions

  • JavaSE-1.8

  • JavaSE-11.0

  • JavaSE-17.0

  • JavaSE-21.0

  • JavaSE-23.0

Platform Versions

  • jakartaee-9.1

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

io.openliberty.jsonbContainer-2.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"