Jackson Library, Project: The Past, the Present and the Future

Jackson is a widely used open-source Java library best known for its powerful capabilities in reading and writing JSON-encoded data. In this talk, Tatu Saloranta — the creator and lead of the Jackson project — will explore Jackson's origins and evolution, provide an overview of its current features, architecture, and supported use cases, and share future plans for the project.

Speaker:
Tatu Saloranta is a seasoned software developer best known for his contributions to multiple open-source libraries on the Java platform. He is known as @cowtowncoder on GitHub and X/Twitter. Tatu has been programming for the past 40 years -- and earning a living doing so for the past 30 (at Sun, Amazon, Salesforce, and several other companies; currently at DataStax) -- but is most passionate about his work on open-source projects like Jackson, his flagship Java JSON library, Woodstox (XML), Java UUID Generator, and many others.
He lives in the greater Seattle area.

Parking

• On the street (smaller streets like 2nd pl/st): parking is free after 6PM
• Bellevue Square: parking lot is free and it should be ok for a few hours
• Bravern Towers should validate for up to six hours if you grab a drink (entrances are from 8th or 112th)
• Griffin Lot (especially for larger vehicles): should be $7 after 5PM
• The building has a parking garage (2hrs: $14, 3hrs: $15, 4hrs: $16, gates close at 10pm)

How to find the event
The event is on the 15th floor of City Center Bellevue (VMware/Broadcom) next to Bellevue Transit Center. If the building doors are closed, go to the north entrance (facing towards the Transit Center), there is a "call" button on the wall left side of the door, the security guard should let you in.