Project Smile: Jackson Binary Format
Project Smile was part of Jackson 1.6 development, and added full native support for Smile (binary JSON) data format.
Support was added as a new jackson-smile jar which contains org.codehaus.jackson.smile) package, and adds components such as:
SmileFactory for construction SmileParser / SmileGenerator instances (to be used instead of JsonParser / JsonGenerator for parsing
Usage is similar to normal Jackson operation, with replacement of SmileFactory where JsonFactory would be normally used:
1 ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(new SmileFactory());
2 // now 'mapper' will read and write Smile-encoded data instead of JSON!